There's a pending patch [1] that gives TextMate's Subversion bundle automatic support for graphical diff utilities like BBDiff. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten this patch to work with FileMerge because FileMerge and its command-line launcher, opendiff, take non- standard arguments and thus aren't compatible with Subversion. Although wrapper scripts are available, the best one I've used so far [2] has been rather flaky: sometimes it simply fails to launch FileMerge.

Today, however, I discovered a new FileMerge wrapper script [3] that seems totally reliable and works quite nicely with the patch. So, to use FileMerge with Subversion, here's what you do:

* Install the patch * Put the script somewhere (chmodding it to executable) * Add this to ~/.subversion/config: diff-cmd = <path to script>

After that, any Subversion diffs you do will be handled by FileMerge.

Trevor

[1] http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=48F737BE [2] http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn- viewdiff [3] http://ssel.vub.ac.be/ssel/internal:fmdiff