[SVN] Re: Making the commit window work with external diff'ers.

[Luke Daley]

On 06/04/2009, at 2:16 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

>> The commit window app assumes that your diff invocation will return
>> the diff. This is not always the case. If you are using Changes.app
>> your invocation of svn diff doesn't actually return the diff.
>>
>> The commit window app needs to be smarter in that it should try to
>> send anything to mate if the diff command didn't return any output.
>
> I assume you mean “…to *not* send anything…”.
>
>> Ideally, it would be nice to have TM pop up a dialog. Which probably
>> means we need to invoke tm_dialog here.
>
> Looking at the function you quoted, seems that if the diff returns a
> non-zero result code, another code path will be taken, but presumably
> not exactly what you want.  I don’t personally like it popping up
> dialogs to tell that an action was performed (I have a similar
> “complaint” about your svn bundle fork ;) ).
>
>> I'll try and add this in, but can someone tell me how I would go  
>> about
>> building this damn thing? There is no xcode project or build script  
>> of
>> any kind to my eyes.
>
> http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Tools/CommitWindowProject/CommitWindow.xcodeproj/

I am giving up on this because using Changes (or any other external  
diff app) sucks. Using TM is much more convenient so I am dropping it.