Easily View Colorized Output from svn diff Using Vim

1 Jun 2010

I came across this simple tip for making svn diff output more readable by colorizing it using Vim. I got very used to being able to easily add color to diffs when working with git repos, and the lack of color in svn diffs got annoying, so I am loving this:

svn diff | vim -R -

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