Re: swd - SVN word diff (wdiff)

I'm re-CC'ing the lists since there's a couple interesting points here.

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Shows that I didn't read your tar file before posting...

Well, expecting people to download something may be unreasonable.  I 
extracted it here:

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/swd/

(I need to bug my sysadmin to expose the repository dir.)

>> Yes, except getting 'svn wdiff' recognized probably requires wrapping 
>> svn itself.  (I didn't think of this, so thanks!)
> 
> Some sort of generic wrapper, perhaps?

Hmm, good idea, I updated things.

>     #!/bin/sh
>     svn=/usr/bin/svn

I made this portable with `which svn` and saving/editing/restoring PATH. 
  A similar wdiff wrapper that accepted colour and context options would 
be neat.

>     if $svn help | grep "   .*$1" > /dev/null; then

This call to svn doubles the running time for simple invocations, a fix 
would cache the output somehow.

Chris

>         $svn "$@"
>     else
>         ${svn}-"$@"
>     fi
> 
> Daniel

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