Re: svn diff -r REV when REV==BASE

>>>>> On 2005-01-01 19:12 PST, Greg Hudson writes:

    Greg> On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:57, Karl Chen wrote:
>> Is there a reason "svn diff -r REV", when REV is the
>> numeric BASE revision, is a remote operation, while "svn
>> diff -r BASE" is a local operation?

    Greg> Because working copies can have mixed revisions, it
    Greg> would require a lot more cleverness on the part of the
    Greg> client library to make "svn diff -r <what happens to be
    Greg> the base rev>" a local operation.

I see, I hadn't thought about mixed-revision working copies.
Thanks for the reply.

(I was thinking about diffs on single files, i.e. "svn diff -r
<what happens to be BASE> file". The reason I asked was because
vc-svn.el does "svn diff -r <what happens to be BASE> file"
instead of "svn diff file" -- quite unusable when off-line. I did
consider this to be more easily fixed by vc-svn.el so I did submit
a patch to Emacs before asking Subversion. I thought it could be
a nice harmless improvement to all clients, but I suppose it's not
worth worrying about.)

-- 
Karl 2005-01-01 20:35
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