Duplicate file differences when creating a patch with TortoiseSVN

Question

I have an already existing SVN checked-in branch.

Using TortoiseSVN:

1. I used SVN Checkout to get the branch onto my local computer.
2. I merged a few lines of code into existing projects
3. I create new subfolders for the newly written code.
4. I TortoiseSVN->Add all the files for my new directories and files.
5. Finally, I go to TortoiseSVN->Create Patch and save the file as myChanges.patch.

When I open the patch, nearly all my differences per source file are listed 3-4 times each.

How can I avoid having duplicate entries in my diff file when I create my patches via TortoiseSVN?

Answer 1

This is old question, but one I couldn't find answers.

I was having the same problem and found out that the problem was how I was creating patches. Steps to reproduce:

• create new folder
• add one or more files in the folder
• create patch and select both folder and files in it to be included

However, if I create patch by only selecting folder, resulting patch file will contain all files in the folder. If I don't want to include all files, I select only individual files and skip the folder completely. Both ways result a patch file where files are included only once.