Re: `svn diff' progress

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:31:28PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:10:27PM -0500, Mark Benedetto King wrote:
> >...
> > Why not just have the diff crawler download both revisions, diff them,
> > and delete them? Am I missing something?
>
> Crawl over what? I maintain that diff between two revs can't refer to the
> working copy.

You're absolutely right. I don't know the lingo for "walk the remote
repository hierarchy an entry at a time".

>
> > WRT Greg Stein's suggestions about showing the individual changes:
> > nice feature, but I think we need cumulative diffs as well.
>
> Eh? Mine is cumulative? It can show diffs between any two revisions, and it
> can do it for a whole tree of changes. Maybe I'm not understanding something
> you're saying?
>

No, I misinterpreted what you meant when you said
        "* for each change, display that change"

You meant "the cummulative changes between r1 and r2". I interpreted
that as "the individual deltas".

I like your idea much better now that I understand it. :-)

--ben

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