beyondcompare

I've got a large source tree (> 2 GB, WINCE build tree) that I would like to start managing with Subversion. Up to this point, 'versioning' has been managed through keeping multiple copies of the tree, and using Beyond Compare to find differences. The last big stumbling block I see to using Subversion is that it modifies the file timestamp to be the commit time. This makes Beyond Compare comparisons much more time consuming, because you must do a binary compare to find changes. I've looked at the meta-data versioning branch of the subversion source tree, but I would prefer to not try to merge

The default patch file viewer is messy (ie. no side by side diff view etc). I tried setting the path of beyondCompare exe in "Settings->Unified Diff Viewer->custom", but beyond compare also behaves same as default diff tool. Is there a way to atleast allow side by side diff in patch files ? If so, what is the method ? My aim is to allow emailing of changes so that they can be reviewed before I commit them :) Mishal I've never found any, but the solution that I usually use is to simply apply the patch file to a pristine checkout of the tree, and then do a "regular" diff (my preferred tool is

I want to use svn command line with beyond compare and get the following output Text Compare Produced: 11/16/2008 11:45:34 AM SourceFile,CompareFile,IOriginal,IAdded,IDeleted,IChanged,UOriginal,UAdded,UDeleted,UChanged "E:\Downloads\eeli\eel\1.c","E:\Downloads\eeli\eel\2.c",967,192,501,270,368,113,205,89 What is the exact commandline? Put this in (for example) c:\bin\bcsvn.bat @REM To configure this as the Subversion diff command, add these lines to @REM c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Subversion\config: @REM @REM [helpers] @REM diff-cmd = c:\bin\bcsvn.bat @REM @"C:\Progra