Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
> Zack Brown wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I noticed by chance that there seems to be no difference between
> > revision 3000 and revision 3001:
> > 05:59:08 [zbrown] ~/site/subversion/trunk$ svn diff -r 3000:3001
> > 05:59:14 [zbrown] ~/site/subversion/trunk$ I'd expect to see at
> > least *some* output, no?
> > Be well,
> > Zack
> >
> try this:
>
> svn log -v -r 3000:3001 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>
> and you'll see that revision 3001 happened on a branch, so for the
> trunk (which you have checked out), there is indeed no difference
> between rev 3000 and 3001. it's just an artifact of the global
> revision number system.
The real issue here is user interface.
When people type 'svn log -rN' or 'svn log -rN:M', they don't realize
that the log command *requires* a path, and that they're implicitly
asking for a history of changes to "."
Of course, "." may not have changed in every revision.
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Received on Thu Oct 31 15:24:18 2002