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Re: svn diff -r HEAD:HEAD-1 URL

From: Justin Johnson <justinjohnson_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-09 13:35:24 CEST

The -c option expects a numeric argument.

C:\>svn diff -c HEAD http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/
svn: Non-numeric change argument given to -c

On 10/9/07, Giulio Troccoli <Giulio.Troccoli@uk.linedata.com> wrote:
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> > From: Justin Johnson [mailto:justinjohnson@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 09 October 2007 12:28
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: svn diff -r HEAD:HEAD-1 URL
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to perform a diff from HEAD to HEAD-1 against a URL (i.e.
> > without a working copy), but HEAD-1 is invalid syntax.
> >
> > C:\>svn diff -r HEAD:HEAD-1 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/
> > svn: Syntax error in revision argument 'HEAD:HEAD-1'
> >
> > The 'svn help diff' output lists some special keywords, but none of
> > them seem to be what I want since they are dependent on having a
> > working copy.
> >
> > A revision argument can be one of:
> > NUMBER revision number
> > '{' DATE '}' revision at start of the date
> > 'HEAD' latest in repository
> > 'BASE' base rev of item's working copy
> > 'COMMITTED' last commit at or before BASE
> > 'PREV' revision just before COMMITTED
> >
> > Is there a way to do this without running multiple commands to extract
> > the revision number for HEAD and subtract 1 for HEAD-1?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> >
>
> Have you tried svn diff -c-HEAD? I know that -cHEAD is the same as
> -rHEAD-1:HEAD and if you have a negative revision, e.g. -c-150, is the
> same as -r150:149, but I havne't tried if -c-HEAD actually works.
>

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