Ben Reser wrote on Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:53:48 -0700:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Gabriela Gibson
> <gabriela.gib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > All my manual tests for the current --invoke-diff-cmd work fine, but I
> > cannot get the test suite to work.
> 
> 1) You're not providing a path for the diff command are you sure that
> it's on the PATH in the environment that svn is running the command
> with?
> 
> 2) You probably don't want to write your test using the system
> provided diff command.  There are platforms such as Windows that
> provide no diff command by default.  Even if the platform provides a
> diff command the output may not match your expected output.

You could use tools/diff/diff.  (As a bonus, I think that binary is
currently untested, so the test will test both the external-diff
functionality and the tools/ utility.)

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