Re: svn diff, svn merge, and vendor branches (long)

Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> That isn't enough. I should be able to svn diff gnuserv-3.12.3
> and gnuserv-3.12.5 even though the names aren't the same.

Oh, yah -- of course. Ben's talking about names *underneath* the
given targets ("anchors", in SVN-speak), I think.

> I'm confused that you see this as a separate issue. Maybe it's
> just because i don't understand the implementation. From my
> perspective, what is discussed above (your "First") covers
> this. And doing that will address this "Second"--won't it?

Sometimes the single-file-diff case is implemented differently from
tree deltas. Check the code; I think this is one of those cases.

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Received on Mon Dec 9 20:55:34 2002