svn - subversion diff including new files

Question

I have some local changes to an open source project which uses Subversion as its source control. (I do not have commit access on the original project repository.)

My change adds a file, but this file is not included in the output of "svn diff". (It may be worth noting that the new file is a binary, not plain text.)

How can I make a patch which includes the new files?

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 $ svn st
   A      tests/foo.zip
 $ svn diff
 $

Answer 1

I experienced similar behavior to Pozsar. And his answer worked for me better than the normal svn diff --force. However, if running on a DOS machine (e.g. via Cygwin), you may need to modify his answer slightly. The following diff + patch worked for patching my text + binary files in Cygwin using the --binary arg:

svn diff --force --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x "-au --binary" OLD-URL NEW-URL > mybinarydiff.diff

patch -p0 --binary -i mybinarydiff.diff