How do you configure TortoiseSVN to use Visual Studio 2012 for diffing?

Question

I want to use the new Visual Studio diffing tool for diffing changes via TortoiseSVN. What do I type in the external tool command line box?

Answer 1

You can use vsDiffMerge.exe to do this.

Visual Studio 2012

Diff:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\vsDiffMerge.exe" /t %base %mine %bname %yname

Merge:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\vsDiffMerge.exe" /m %theirs %mine %base %merged

Visual Studio 2013 & 2014

Just identify the version number and replace the 12.0 in the above commands with the want you want. (Tested with 2015, 14.0.)

Visual Studio 2017

Diff:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\vsDiffMerge.exe" /t %base %mine %bname %yname

Merge:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\vsDiffMerge.exe" /m %theirs %mine %base %merged

References

vsDiffMerge.exe usage

See here and here.

TortoiseSVN command substitution

• TortoiseSVN diff command substitutions
• TortoiseSVN merge command substitutions

Answer 2

Use this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe -diff %base %mine

Taken from the TortoiseSVN manual, which shows the %paramNames around halfway down the page.

http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-progs