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--- versioncontrol:subversionmissing [2012/09/07 15:48] – answer another question StefanSperling
+++ versioncontrol:subversionmissing [2022/10/07 03:01] (current) – Move bakeoff stuff under a single namespace KubilayKocak
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 Unfortunately, ''%%~/.subversion/config%%'' does not seem to offer any relief from this.
 (Well, you can set ''%%"diff-cmd=/usr/bin/diff"%%'' and rely on one's ''%%DIFF_OPTIONS%%'' environmental variable setting, but then diff'ing is slower than it needs to be in the "typical" case.)
+Answer: This was fixed in 1.7.0. See the 'diff-extensions' option in ~/.subversion/config (to view an up-to-date config template: svn help --config-dir /tmp/conf; less /tmp/conf/config)
   - Why does Subversion bother to tell me the number of lines in a commit log message?
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 I don't see the benefit in this output.  Couldn't we get something  more useful instead?  Number of source lines changed in that commit for instance.
-Answer: This was done to help conversion tools. See the cvsps problem where its log message parser fails if a CVS log message contains a log-message-separator line...
+Answer: This was done to help tools that parse svn log output. See the cvsps problem where its log message parser fails if a CVS log message contains a log-message-separator line...
   - Many Subversion commands bail out in processing their command-line arguments if the command operation cannot be accomplished on a particular file.