Question

I am trying to use the Tortoise SVN command line utility TortoiseProc.exe. The docs suggest that a command line like this:

'TortoiseProc.exe' /command:diff afile.cpp` 

should do a diff and display the results in the configured diff viewer (in my case Tortoise’s own one), but instead nothing happens – the viewer is not launched & no error messages appear.

If I do:

svn diff afile.cpp 

from the same directory, I get the normal Subversion diff text output.

Paths are OK, Tortoise works fine from the context menu, so what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to put /path: before the name of your source file:

'TortoiseProc.exe' /command:diff /path:afile.cpp 

Tested on my TortoiseSVN.

See http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-automation.html