On 16.06.2011 12:38, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: > On 06/15/2011 02:44 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> GNU diff is a general-purpose diff tool. 'svn diff' is not. > Then again, we now have 'svn patch' because some platforms "lack" general > purpose commandline diff/patch tools. And we do already have specific > tweaking options for the internal diff: -u, -b, -w, --ignore-eol-style, -p.
Indeed, but all of these are tailored to the Subversion's needs, whereas GNU diff can be used in a myriad other environments. For example, "svn diff" always produces unified diff output; GNU diff also does context diffs, ed scripts, etc. etc -- none of which we really need or want in our implementation. We should just keep in mind that it is /not/ the goal of this exercise to produce a general-purpose diff tool to compete with GNU diff. -- Brane
