> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Neyman [mailto:sti...@att.net]
> Sent: donderdag 20 april 2017 02:59
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: svn generates long lists of empty diffs with --diff-cmd
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that SVN generates a lot of spurious diffs when using a
> --diff-cmd option that look like this:
>
> Index: arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c
> ==========================================================
> =========
> Index: arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
> ==========================================================
> =========
>
> Is it possible to suppress such empty diffs? This makes the tools like
> ReviewBoard (www.reviewboard.org) examine a lot of unchanged files and
> slows them down considerably and unnecessary.
What argument do you pass to --diff-cmd ?
Is it possible that the files are actually different, but your diff command
reports that they are not different (e.g. after normalizing whitespace). I
think this header is printed on changed files, right before invoking the diff
command.
Bert
>
> Regards,
> Alexey.
