Michael Schlottke wrote on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 17:34:15 +0200: > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 15:23 , Philip Martin wrote: > > Another user raised the issue > > > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4382 > > > > Using '--diff-cmd colordiff' to get coloured output no longer works. > > > > Here's a solution that requires the user to mark the command as > > requiring direct access. Log and patch: > > > > Allow the user to bypass the temporary spool file when invoking an > > external diff command. This allows commands that expect to see > > a terminal to work. The user adds the prefix 'svn:direct:' to the > > command and Subversion passes the stream's file rather than creating > > a spool file. So > > > > --diff-cmd foo > > > > runs foo with a spool file and > > > > --diff-cmd svn:direct:foo > > > > runs foo with the stream's file. > > I can confirm that your patch works for me (OS X Lion and Linux). > Thanks for the quick fix! Keeping my fingers crossed that this will > make it into the repository soon. >
I believe http://svn.apache.org/r1497002 fixes this issue (without the svn:direct: prefix), and is proposed for backport towards 1.8.1. Daniel > Michael >
