Nah, I meant the SVN commit email diffs.
Sorry for my naivete, I just didn't see the diff type switching capability
at the bottom of those urls the change email links to.

Thanks for all the tips on patches too though!

- Cassie


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Lindner
> > hi5 Architect
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>

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