Collection of tips & tricks, mostly about libre software.
2012/09/19
Meld as SVN diff
The default Subversion's diff program can be replaced by, e.g., meld. In fact, it may also be used as merge program, but we do not address to this issue here.
To use melt as diff program, open with a text editor the file
~/.subversion/config
and replace or add the line
diff-cmd=meld
Then the command
svn diff -r v1:v2 FILE &
will compare the versions v1 and v2 of FILE using meld.