Question

Good Day,

I’m using an application that stores functions in a custom file extension (.mts).

For example I have subroutines located in functions.mts. I’m using Subversion to store the changes made over the lifetime of this project.

Is there a way to customize Subversion so that I can diff the two files as if I was using C#?

TIA,

coson

Answer 1

Do you mean as if the .mts files were themselves C++ files? If that’s what you mean, Subversion doesn’t have anything to do with it, because its internal diff only cares if a file is text or binary.

If you mean you want to use the same diff tool as your C++ IDE uses, you can configure Subversion (or identify on the command line) that you want to use an external tool for examining differences:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externaldifftools

For instance, I have in my ~/.subversion/config file this directive:

diff-cmd = colordiff

This means that when I use svn diff I get colorized differences.