Hello Joe,
That relates to my posting:
"Feature suggestion: --dry-run on update"
<http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=56199>
(I was interested in detecting conflicts in particular.)
I hope the SVN developers do implement "--dry-run" for "svn update".
Rob.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Hannon [mailto:jhannon@SeattleMortgage.com]
> Sent: 12 October 2006 18:30
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: how to find what would be updated: status --show-updates not
> enough
>
>
> Hi-
>
> So when you do an svn update, as it updates, it responds with
> information like
> A /svntest/test4.txt
>
> with a flag that tells you whether the updated file was
> added, deleted, updated, in conflict, or merged. I want to
> get this information without actually doing the updates.
> Confusingly, svn update --dry-run does not work. The mailing
> list taught me that the command is svn status --show-updates.
> However, svn status --show-updates tells you about what
> files in your working copy will be modified only. It won't
> say whether the modification is an update, delete, addition,
> etc. Is there a way to get this information without actually
> doing the update?
>
> thanks for your help.
> -j
>
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