I'd like to know whether there's a way -- or whether it would be reasonable to request a feature to provide a way -- to ask svn supply the original filename to an external diff3 tool.
I use xxdiff to view diff info from subversion, via a command-line-argument translation script. In an "svn update" test, these arguments were passed to my script: --> -E --> -m --> -L --> .mine --> -L --> .r1329 --> -L --> .r1339 --> .svn/tmp/tempfile.tmp --> .svn/text-base/qsubfim.frost.svn-base --> .svn/tmp/text-base/qsubfim.frost.svn-base This isn't so bad, as the original filename (qsubfim.frost) actually appears in two of the filenames. It would be nicer if an extra argument supplied the actual original filename, though, so I could display it in the xxdiff titles without trying to extract it from one of the filenames. But the arguments supplied in an "svn merge" situation are less helpful: --> -E --> -m --> -L --> .working --> -L --> .merge-left.r1330 --> -L --> .merge-right.r1339 --> .svn/tmp/tempfile.4.tmp --> /tmp/tempfile.14.tmp --> .svn/tmp/tempfile.tmp The file actually under examination is called "batchTemplate-fim" so, unless you immediately recognize the code in the xxdiff window, there's no way to know what you're looking at: No command-line arguments provided by svn tell you. Someone asked about this in September 2009, but I didn't see a response: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-09/0420.shtml. I also searched for tickets, but didn't find anything applicable -- though I could easily have missed it given the ticket volume. I'd be grateful for any information, whether it's a solution or workaround I could implement myself, a reason why this is a bad idea and I should give up on it, or encouragement to file a feature request. Thanks in advance, paul
