TortoiseSVN does not understand hg diff output

Paul R paul.r.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 14:37:36 CDT 2008


Hi,

> TortoiseSVN is brain-damaged. It thinks a "diff" is defined by what is
> produced by "svn diff" when in fact a diff is defined by what's
> -accepted- by "patch".

Maybe because tortoise is not patch.

>> The diff is not empty, so how can I produce patches that I can check
>> into an existing svn repository? 
>
> Use patch to apply the patch rather than TortoiseSVN.

Better, use patch to apply patches to files. Use Tortoise to import
svn patches to your repository.

-- 
      Paul


More information about the Mercurial mailing list