OK, I'm pretty happy with $ svn diff -r HEAD RELEASE-NOTES However that gives a backwards view, --- RELEASE-NOTES (revision 81238) +++ RELEASE-NOTES (working copy) I want --- RELEASE-NOTES (working copy) +++ RELEASE-NOTES (revision 81238) But $ svn help diff is written to abstrusely for me to figure out how. Do I have to hardwire version numbers into my command line? Thanks.