Branko Čibej wrote on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:21 +0100: > No; because 'svn diff' hides differences in end-of-line style and > keyword expansions, it has to preprocess the files in the working copy, > and it sends those preprocessed files to the external diff wrapper. > > We could theoretically skip that part for files that don't have > svn:eol-style or svn:keywords properties, but then the tool invocation > would be inconsistent. > > Your best bet is to use an editor that has Subversion support built in.
Or we could add some context information in argv[8] of the diff-cmd to make it easier for them to be intelligent. (Right now only 1..7 are used, IIRC)
