How to use svn with beyond compare 3

Question

I want to use svn command line with beyond compare and get the following output

Text Compare
Produced: 11/16/2008 11:45:34 AM

SourceFile,CompareFile,IOriginal,IAdded,IDeleted,IChanged,UOriginal,UAdded,UDeleted,UChanged
"E:\Downloads\eeli\eel\1.c","E:\Downloads\eeli\eel\2.c",967,192,501,270,368,113,205,89

What is the exact commandline?

why would anyone vote this down ? I know nothing about "beyond compare" but people actually use/know it and have already answered the question ? the question is not too vague or bizzare, no obvius spelling errors ? What's happening. — hayalci, Nov 16 '08 at 23:24

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited May 18 '23 at 16:27

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All the Beyond Compare settings for different version control systems are outlined here: http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=kb_vcs

For TortoiseSVN try https://web.archive.org/web/20221130064351/https://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs#tortoisesvn

edited May 18 '23 at 16:27

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answered Jan 21 '11 at 01:12

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Ned Batchelder · Accepted Answer · 2008-11-16T20:29:27.733

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Put this in (for example) c:\bin\bcsvn.bat

@REM To configure this as the Subversion diff command, add these lines to
@REM    c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Subversion\config:
@REM
@REM [helpers]
@REM diff-cmd = c:\bin\bcsvn.bat
@REM
@"C:\Progra~1\Beyond~1\bcomp.exe" "%6" /title1=%3 "%7" /title2=%5
@exit 0

You'll might have to fix up the path to bcomp.exe.

edited Nov 16 '08 at 20:29

answered Nov 16 '08 at 20:22

Ned Batchelder

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 20 '19 at 16:14

The instructions suggested by the others didn't work for me. Here's how I finally got it:

I. On a Windows Explorer window, Right-click > TortoiseSVN > Settings

Diff Viewer
External
...
Find BCompare.exe. If you did a normal installation it's in C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\.

There's no need to enter all the whacky variables outlined in the documentation, in fact I couldn't get it to work with those.
Go ahead and do the same thing for the other options in Diff Viewer and Merge Tool if you want.

How to use svn with beyond compare 3

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Here's what the final should look like:

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