The "-dl -dr" is the value for the -x option which are passed as arguments to the external diff command. These are parsed and used by your external diff tool. You'll have to see the documentation for that tool (WinMerge in your case). That said, I don't really know what people in GUI land do..
Arwin From: Bo Berglund Sent: Saturday, 28 April, 13:10 Subject: Re: command line syntax for svn diff To: users@subversion.apache.org On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 06:39:24 +0000, Arwin Arni Nandagopal wrote: >There are revision keywords like HEAD which references the latest revision >and PREV which references the last changed revision of the target. >E.g: SVN diff -rHEAD:PREV target.file will show the changes between the last >changed revision for that file and the latest revision, which is effectively >the change introduced by that last revision. > Thanks! That made a good way forward! I did this on the command line: svn diff -r HEAD:PREV espconfig.cpp And now I get output which is a regular (humanly unreadable) diff: Index: espconfig.cpp =================================================================== --- espconfig.cpp (revision 2446) +++ espconfig.cpp (revision 2434) @@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ * A sets IP address as X.Y.Z.W format * B sets the serial port baud rate * C sets the wifi channel number in AP mode (0-13 where 0 means no setting) - * F sets the STA mode IP address fixed state * H sets if AP mode ssid shall be hidden (1) or not (0) * L load config into CnfTmp * M sets the WiFi mode @@ -187,7 +186,6 @@ * a gets IP address * b gets the serial port baud rate * c gets the AP mode channel number (0..13) - * f gets the STA mode fixed address setting (0..1) * h gets the AP mode ssid hidden state (0/1) * i gets the WiFi MAC address * m gets the WiFi mode .... etc with + and - indicators.... But what I would like is to get this loaded into WinMerge so I can examine side by side the code changes in context. And of course the example from the WinMerge docs does not work yet... I modified it thus: svn diff -r HEAD:PREV --diff-cmd "C:\Programs\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe" -x "-dl -dr" espconfig.cpp I have no idea what the parameters "-dl -dr" axtually do, though. Question: --------- Since I am new to SVN but it has been around for like 15 years I expected this diff use to be pretty common but I find little info when I google. Do people not use diffs into sensible GUI display programs like WinMerge when using SVN? Or is GUI equivalent to saying TortoiseSVN? (which I cannot install for reasons explained in my start post). -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
