Re: 4 bugs in svn diff (IssueZilla gives me Internal Server Error)

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> Eric, you misunderstand how 'svn diff' works. Sorry if 'svn help
> diff' didn't make things clear, it's hard to communicate the complex
> syntax of this subcommand.
>
> 1. svn diff [-r N[:M]] [PATH1 [PATH2 [PATH3 ...]]]
> 2. svn diff URL1[@N] URL2[@M]
>
> You're looking at usage syntax #1, and thinking that the PATHs are
> diffed against each other; that's not what's going on. Rather, they
> are a *list* of targets to be diffed, each in turn.

I wonder if this is the correct interface. I often use case 1 above,
but nearly always with a single path. When I use diff with two paths
I nearly always want case 2. In fact one of the things I want to do
is not supported: namely to diff my working copy against a "branch".

Perhaps a better interface would be

 svn diff [-r N[:M]] TARGET
 compares different revisions of TARGET

 svn diff [-r N] TARGET1[@N] TARGET2[@M]
 compares TARGET1 against TARGET2

I can always get the current 'svn diff PATH1 ... PATHN' behaviour by
invoking 'svn diff PATH1' ... 'svn diff PATHN'.

-- 
Philip
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