Re: [Issue 422] Changed - "svn diff" needs to be fleshed out.

> Oh, screw that. Big time. The server should never have to fork like
> that. The only thing missing here is context within our
> svndiff. Once we have that, then an svndiff can be transformed into
> a context diff or a unified diff.

Oof. I don't think it's terribly easy to add context to a block-copy
diff format. Maybe Branko has ideas on this. But I thought svndiff
was only going to be used in cases where we expect to have the entire,
unmodified diff source to work with.

I think you're a little confused about the "custom diff program"
feature people are talking about. This is for the output of the "svn
diff" command, which generates user-readable data rather than svndiff
data. You may still be right that no user is going to care, but it
turns out to be a very easy feature to add (as long as we don't run
the diff program on the servers).

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:40 2006