Re: [Issue 422] Changed - "svn diff" needs to be fleshed out.

Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:
 
> Pardon my misunderstanding, but what functionality is this exactly?

1. svn diff foo.c

      This can be done entirely client-side, by comparing foo.c
      against the hidden pristine copy in SVN/text-base/. This is
      what we have now.

2. svn diff -r 5 -r 7 foo.c

      This is a diff best computed by the repository, since it has
      version 5 and 7 of this file at its instant disposal. To make
      this work, we need to:

        - make libsvn_repos call out to /usr/bin/diff
        - add new functionality to the "RA" layer definition in svn_ra.h.
          Specifically, a client needs a new vtable routine to request
          this diff, and the RA layer needs a generic way of
          schlepping plain text back to the client.

3. svn diff -r 5 foo.c

      This means:

        - asking the RA layer for 5:foo.c's entire textual contents,
          so we can compare against our local foo.c. Similar to
          situation #2.

Again, this is not a nightmare to implement, but means expanding what
our RA vtable can do -- easy to do in the ra_local case. But for
ra_dav, it means coming up with new ways to marshall plaintext over
DAV message bodies. Right now, I'd rather help gstein & others fix
the *current* bugs in ra_dav, rather than adding new functionality
there. :-)

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:39 2006