Subversion does have problem with doing diff inside working copy checked out on textmode mounted path.
Win2kSP4 + all updates cygwin1-20040720 snapshot subversion-1.0.5-1 $ mount | grep work d: on /work type system (textmode) $ svnadmin create /svn $ mkdir -p /work/tmp/testdir $ cd /work/tmp/ $ echo "test" >testdir/testfile $ svn import -m "Test import." testdir file:///svn/testdir Adding testdir/testfile Committed revision 1. $ mv testdir testdir.old $ svn co file:///svn/testdir testdir A testdir/testfile Checked out revision 1. $ cd testdir $ echo "test2" >>testfile $ svn diff svn: Failed to read file '.svn/text-base/testfile.svn-base': End of file found Best regards, Jacek. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/