Ah, my mistake. Here's one way that I've been integrating external patches into my local tree:
1) Save patch to file.
2) Use the Apply Patch feature of IntelliJ 7.0.
Version Control -> Apply Patch
3) Click on Show Diff. Behold the green and blue.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:17:56AM -0800, Kevin Brown wrote:
> What Cassie is referring to is not SVN commit diffs, but rather patch diffs
> sent in by non-comitters.
>
> The best thing to do is probably to take the actual patch file and open it
> with tkdiff or some other tool that understands the format. When they don't
> send a file, you have to copy the text into a new file and then do this.
> It's a pain, but it's about the best you can hope for.
>
> ~Kevin
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 11:06 AM, Paul Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:42:30AM -0800, Cassie wrote:
> > > No matter how hard I try I just can not read and efficiently process the
> > > text diffs that get sent in all of our change emails. I need my green
> > and
> > > blue and red highlighting, and side by side file comparisons.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a way to get better diffs for other people's
> > changes? Is
> > > there some service we can set up and then have urls in each email point
> > to
> > > that service? Or anything like that?
> >
> > The diffs I see have the URL included. For example:
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=616466&view=rev
> >
> > Myself, I use the IntelliJ svn support to track changes. It supports
> > all kinds of pretty diffs.
> >
> >
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