SVN diffs require external diff --- why?

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Emerson
I'm (unfortunately) working in a windows shop and have built a stand-alone executable of post-review using py2exe. It works great, except for people who don't have cygwin installed: they get an error like: Failed to execute command: ['svn', 'diff', '--diff-cmd=diff'] ['\n', 'Property changes on:

Re: SVN diffs require external diff --- why?

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Emerson
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tom Emerson tremer...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Why is svn diff being invoked with --diff-cmd? I can't force the rest of the company to install 'diff', and certainly when they manually upload the diffs they are not using --diff-cmd to generate them, so why is

Re: SVN diffs require external diff --- why?

2009-05-07 Thread Christian Hammond
Hi Tom, You can try removing the --diff-cmd flags. I agree that it's not ideal, and I'd like to do something better, but it hasn't been as high on the priority list and some other things. What I'd really like to do down the road is to have us take care of providing a working diff tool for use in