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Subject: Re: Blank lines
From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2016@ryandesign.com>
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Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 20:20:01 -0500
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To: webster.brent@rogers.com
archived-at: Sat, 07 May 2016 01:20:11 -0000


On May 5, 2016, at 4:12 PM, webster.brent@rogers.com wrote:
>=20
> From: Branko =C4=8Cibej <brane@apache.org>
>=20
>> Not 'status' -- 'svn status' should always show what 'svn commit' =
will
>> send to the server. But 'diff', I agree, could be smarter. For =
example,
>> right now, 'svn diff --summarize -x -w' will mention files that =
contain
>> only whitespace changes, even though 'svn diff -x -w' will show an =
empty
>> diff for those files.
>=20
> You should wrapper the diff command
>=20
> svn diff --diff-cmd 'diff -x -w'

Not quite.

--diff-cmd is for specifying the name of the diff program to run, e.g. =
diff. If you want to name a diff program whose path or name contains =
spaces, then you have to quote it, but that would be unusual.

svn diff --diff-cmd '/path with spaces/to/diff'

-x is for specifying the arguments to pass to that diff program, e.g. =
-w. If you want to pass multiple arguments to the diff program, you have =
to quote them.

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x '-u -w'