Re: why the inconsistency between some svn commands?

On Friday 05 August 2005 22:19, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Here's the inconsistency that has always bothered me:
> svn log -r5:8 describes what changed in revisions 5, 6, 7, 8
> svn diff -r5:8 describes what changed in revisions 6, 7, 8
>
> Presumably this was so 'svn log -rN' by itself wouldn't be a no-op.
> And I suppose it's not possible to fix it *now*, even if we gain the
> -cN flag, as is being discussed elsewhere.

This is a nice example of the so-called fencepost problem. Imagine a fence. In
the first command you count the fenceposts. In the second command you count
the spaces between the fenceposts:

1 2 3 4
|---|---|---|
  1 2 3

Hope that clears the issue up :-)
C'ya,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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