It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

My latest idea for the svn --diff-cmd can be seen here.

Let's hope it does better than this guys' great idea!

Rewriting my SVN branch

My invoke-diff-cmd branch cannot simply be merged, and it looks like I need to rewire things quite a bit.

So, apart from learning python for my new project (more of that in a soon to be typed blogpost!) and playing around with pylint and reading up on HTML5 after I had some great suggestions on how to improve my 'Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail' application,  I'm still trying to figure out what is actually going on in the new svn diff code, and the way I'm currently feeling about this all is probably best described as in this video below:

Then again, I'm pretty sure I'll be dining on curried chicken quite soon ;-)

SVN Book diff idea

It would be nice to have SVN book versions on the website that have a differing portions of the text in blue for changes, and green for new additions and red for now obsolete parts.

It would make re-reading the book for a new version much easier for old hands, you could immediately spot everything you need to reconsider.

So, if I upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7, I would like to have the normal 1.7 book, the 1.7/1.6 'blue/green' version and the 1.6/1.7 'red' version.

(blue & green might not be possible to automate, but even just the blue version would be very useful, or perhaps it's even possible to have this all in one version.)

--invoke-diff3-cmd branch ready for review

Finally the feature --invoke-diff3-cmd for Subversion is ready -- 23 files in 8 directories, 86 code snippets for a total 782 lines of code, 53 log message components plus a BRANCH-README file.

New invoke-diff-cmd feature: --svn-cfg-file

Wrote this feature yesterday, all in one go.

Had the idea whilst pondering what to do with the --invoke-diff3-cmd interactive user dialogue.

Maybe the new agate necklace magic really works?  Heh.

How to use svn diff to create a list of visitable files with line numbers in the Emacs compile buffer

Here is how to use the svn diff output within the emacs compile buffer to generate a handy list of files with line numbers that you can click on to visit every bit of code you've changed:

M-x compile

svn diff |\
perl -ne '/Index: (.*)$/ && ($name = $1);\
/^@@.*\+(\d+),/ && print "./$name:$1:diff\n";'  

The svn diff Project: First part done, review passed!

The --invoke-diff-cmd part of the svn diff project has been completed (bar one possible improvement).

The BRANCH-README file explains it all.

Of course, there has to be a fitting video for this post:



Now for the second part --- the invoke-diff3-cmd section!