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Re: Problem with repository browser compare

From: arnaud <arnaud.legout_at_laposte.net>
Date: 2005-11-25 09:50:38 CET

Hello Stefan,

Stefan Küng wrote:
> If I had to guess, it's because you didn't create the branches from
> /trunk due to a copy but you created them 'fresh'. So the files you're
> diffing don't have a common root but are completely unrelated (in terms

that seems a reasonable explanation.
However, I don't really see why subversion performs the unified diff
this way.

May be I would have to use another SVN strategy, but I did not find in
the subversion book a strategy really adapted to my needs.

> of Subversion). There's a flag to force Subversion to treat files as
> related when diffing, but then the unified diff isn't really parsable
> anymore (believe me, I tried!).
>
> I guess you have to wait a few month until Subversion 1.4 is out - it
> will have a special "diff" function for UI clients which TSVN will use
> to get the list of changed files. So no need for parsing unified diffs
> anymore - but for now, we have to live with some bad effects due to
> parsing the unified diff.

Thanks for your answer.

Arnaud

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