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Re: "Compare with working copy" in update dialog option compares wrong revisions

From: Jody Shumaker <jody.shumaker_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-26 22:41:07 CET

As a suggestion, if you wanted something like this I'd suggest using the
check for modifications dialog and checking the repository, then do your
diffs there before updating.

- Jody

On 1/24/06, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/24/06, Roel Harbers <roel@roelharbers.com> wrote:
> > the "Compare with working copy" context menu command compares the
> > updated file with the old revision of the root of the working copy (the
> > directory the update command is run on), *not* the old revision of the
> > updated file.
>
> Yes. Because we don't know which files will be updated. So we just get
> the 'old' revision of the root, do the update, and then do the diff
> between the old root revision and the HEAD.
> If we wanted to do the diff between the old revision of the file and
> HEAD, we'd have to first crawl the whole working copy, store the
> last-committed-rev of each and every file.
>
> Stefan
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