Use WinMerge for comparing archives with TortoiseSVN

I really like the Diff Viewer that comes with TortoiseSVN, but from what I can gather it doesn't seem to support anything but text files, which is fair enough, but I need to compare archives as well. Zip and Jar files in particular.

WinMerge supports that, and can be integrated with TortoiseSVN very easily right through its installer. But I prefer the diff viewer that comes with TortoiseSVN and the archive diff isn't recursive by default, so I decided to set it up manually.

1. Install WinMerge
   • Deselect Automagic TortoiseSVN integration
2. Install the WinMerge 7-zip plugin
   • Select Application specific installation
   • Browse to WinMerge executable
   • Enable Enable standalone operation
3. Open WinMerge and go to Edit, Options, Archive Support
   • Enable Detect archive type from file signature
   • Switch to Use local 7-Zip from WinMerge folder
4. Open TortoiseSVN Settings and go to Diff Viewer, Advanced
   • Add rows with extension set to .zip, .jar and whatever archives you want WinMerge to handle and set external program to the following:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe /r /x /e /u /dl %bname /dr %yname %base %mine

If I now for example ask TortoiseSVN for a Diff with previous version of a jar file, I get WinMerge with a recursive comparison of the archive contents.