Re: Issue #1093: "svn diff" enhancement to follow moved/renamed items

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
>
>>We should clarify "restricted to the paths PATH..." with regard to
>>that limitation. The current help says "PATHs, if given, are
>>relative to OLD-TGT and NEW-TGT and restrict the output to
>>differences for those paths." This is still not quite clear; I
>>assume it means the union of PATHs that exist under OLD-TGT and
>>PATHs that exist under NEW-TGT, with those that are only present on
>>one side causing an "added" or "deleted" diff. Or does it mean that
>>it is an error if any PATH does not exist on both sides?
>
> It basically means that a diff will be done between each pair of
> OLD-TGT/PATH vs. NEW-TGT/PATH. The behavior of each of those diffs
> will be exactly the same as if you'd done 'svn diff OLD-TGT/PATH
> NEW-TGT/PATH'.

i.e. erroring out of the whole command if a PATH does not exist under both OLD-TGT and NEW-TGT.

  svn: 'file:///.../PATH' was not found in the repository at revision 53

I have no problem with that; I just wanted to clarify it.

- Julian

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Received on Thu Dec 11 03:11:15 2003