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Re: Will send_copyfrom_args be reverted for 'ra' layers too just like in issue #3711

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:31:11 -0500

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:08:41AM +0530, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:
>>
>> >AFAIK svn diff always prints a diff against the copy source if the
>> >items being diffed are source and target of a copy. How is what you
>> >intend to do different from the default behaviour?
>>
>> What Prabhu's '--diff-copy-from' do is 'get the modification to file *alone* done in a same commit as copy'.
>>
>> Without this switch it would show all the lines as 'added' with this switch it would show only 'the modified lines'.
>>
>> While debugging some issue I could see 'svnlook diff --diff-copy-from' doing exactly the same and asked Prabhu to do the same.
>>
>
> Hi Kamesh,
>
> I don't understand what you mean.
> We're probably not talking about the same thing.

Given that he was asking about the RA layer in his original question,
I assume it must be some scenario when comparing with URL's,

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2010-11-25 00:31:48 CET

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