On Feb 10, 2011, at 23:33, Victor Sudakov wrote: > I like very much the default output of the FreeBSD diff program. > So I prefer using "svn diff --diff-cmd=/usr/bin/diff -x --normal" > instead of just "svn diff". > > However, when I put the line "diff-cmd = /usr/bin/diff -x --normal" > into ~/.subversion/config, I get the following error message: > > exec of '/usr/bin/diff -x --normal' failed: No such file or directorysvn: > '/usr/bin/diff -x --normal' returned 255 > > I guess it is trying to exec '/usr/bin/diff -x --normal' as a whole > which is kind of expected. > > For the present, I have created a shell alias for the "svn diff" > command, but I am curious what the correct ~/.subversion/config syntax > is to achieve what I want?
This looks like http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2930 i.e., you've found the current status quo; there is no better method currently available.
