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11.19.10

svn diff for png (and other binary) files Subversion | (5)
Bruno, in Optimisation de PNG, ou encore une bonne raison de préférer git, argues that git is better because you can use gitattributes to specify a program which will convert binary files to text before diffing: $ echo '*.png diff=exif' >> .gitattributes $ git config diff.exif.textconv exiftool This trick had already been reported by Scott, and is included in Pro Git in chapter 7.2. We've seen in the last post how to have a Color-highlighted svn diff output with git default colors, now we'll see how to svn diff png files. This is what you'll get if you try a svn diff on a png ...
11.19.10

Color-highlighted svn diff output Subversion | (3)
This post has been inspired by several articles: Viewing svn diff result in colors by Jakub, and A better svn diff by Antonio. This is what you get when you do a svn diff: [caption id="attachment_59" align="alignnone" width="256" caption="Original svn diff"][/caption] But what if we want a color-highlighted svn diff output? Subversion supports using external differencing tools, at least since version 1.2. So lets use colordiff, a Perl wrapper for diff which produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting, and custom color schemes. First, install colordiff. Under Debian: $ sudo aptitude install colordiff Then you just have to tell Subversion to use ...

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