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Re: New diff syntax? (see issue #1142)

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: 2003-05-16 12:14:04 CEST

Michael Wood writes:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:59:20AM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> > > -0.99. This kind of "document around the edge case" is bound to bite
> > > us. The minute we make this change, someone's going to complain about
> > > how they tried to run 'svn diff trunk/foo tags/0.14/foo' and didn't
> > > see what they expected.
> > >
> >
> > Personally, I'd be quite happy if that showed me the differences
> > between trunk/foo and tags/0.14/foo. What do you think the
> > expectation would be?
> [snip]
>
> That's exactly the point he was trying to make. The "smart" proposal
> would have meant:
>
> $ svn diff trunk/foo tags/0.14/foo
>
> would be equivalent to:
>
> $ diff -u trunk/.svn/text-base/foo.svn-base trunk/foo; \
> diff -u tags/0.14/.svn/text-base/foo.svn-base tags/0.14/foo
>
> (unless I misunderstood this part of the smart proposal.)

Hmm, I think that means I misunderstood that part then. (Looks
again). Yep. OK, I agree with Mike, the iterative case is EEEEEVIL,
lets junk it. (thinking back, I've only ever used the iterative case
by accident when I meant something else anyway)

Robert

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