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Re: "Diff with URL" broken

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-25 18:20:11 CEST

Davison, Steve D wrote:
> Version 1.4.5
>
> I Shift-Right-click on a modified file and select "Diff with URL".
> The dialog asks for a URL so I supply the URL for the same file I
> clicked. Up comes the diff viewer, saying that one file is the
> HEAD revision of that file in the repository, and the other one
> is the working copy. The problem is that the files as identical;
> they are both the head revision in the repo.
>
> A normal Diff operation reports the same files being compared,
> but it will correctly show the actual differences.
>
> So... Why isn't the feature actually using the working copy?

It uses the working BASE, but that's a problem of the Subversion
library. It's fixed in the latest trunk of Subversion and therefore will
be fixed in the 1.5 release.

Stefan

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