Create "patch" between revisions?

svn tortoisesvn diff patch
Josh M. picture Josh M. · Jan 24, 2014 · Viewed 27.3k times · Source

It seems SVN's "patch" functionality is not exactly what I want. What I really want is to create a diff of files between revisions. So, I'd choose rev1 and rev 2 and end up with a folder containing all files that were changed or added between those revisions.

Can this be done with Tortoise SVN or plain-old svn?

Answer

batigolix picture batigolix · Aug 13, 2014

From the command line you could do this as follows.

All files in a folder

Create a patch in your Home folder that contains all the changes between revision 123 and 124 from all the changed files in the folder "my_project":

svn diff -r123:124 path/to/my_project > ~/my_project_changes_123_124.patch

One particular file

Create a patch in your Home folder that contains all the changes between revision 123 and 124 from only one file, name "my_project.php":

svn diff -r123:124 path/to/my_project/my_project.php > ~/my_project_changes_123_124.patch

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