Re: [Issue 2543] Inconsistent svn diff after rename

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:38:15PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack@terra.com.br> wrote:
>
> >I think we are not understanding each other. What I would like to have
> >is that svn diff right after svn mv should show exactly what it shows
> >after the commit is made. Currently it shows something different.
>
> This debate has been going on for years.
>
> If I 'svn copy' (or 'svn mv', since mv == 'cp; rm' right now) a file,
> then 'svn diff' shows nothing at all. If I then make tweaks to the
> copied file, 'svn diff' shows me just the tweaks.
>

Actually, that's not right. Unless you restrict the target to just the
new file, it shows the deletion of the original file and also (as you
mentioned) a diff of the new file against the copyfrom source.

Or at least, it does in 1.3.0, and I don't think we've changed it since.

However, repos->wc diffs don't currently take account of copyfrom
information, so those diffs show a complete add and a complete delete.

Unless there are two radically different use cases that I've been missing,
I'm of the opinion that this is a bug (though I'm not sure which way to
resolve it) - I think that in:

svn diff
svn ci [ commits rN ]
svn diff -rN-1

The two 'svn diff's should give equivalent output.

(Also to note that 'svnlook diff' is inconsistent with 'svn diff' in
this area as well.)

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Wed May 10 12:27:01 2006