Re: Resolution of 'svn diff' change?

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I'm willing to accede to a new subcommand, but as Phillip notes:
>
> * svn diff should take -r options.
> * svn compare should demand two arguments.
>
> I'll note that there is still a piece of functionality from CVS which
> these two commands don't encompass, specifically "compare foo and bar
> and baz from my working directory against the vendor branch". In CVS,
> that's "cvs diff -r vendor foo bar baz"; in svn, we would need a way to
> say "svn compare vendor-url . foo bar baz" or something like that. In
> one of the long-ago debates, I proposed a unified syntax which would
> handle it.

Well, I toyed with proposing something as nasty as a single command:

   1. svn diff --compare [-rN:M] PATH1-LFT PATH1-RGT [PATH2-LFT PATH2-RGT ...]
   2. svn diff [-rN:M] [PATH [...]]

In other words, --compare requires an even number of targets, each
pair compared to each other, possibly using the -r modifiers (or gosh,
we could use '@'-syntax here for *real* precision.

But this is just getting sick, folks.

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Received on Mon May 19 20:01:56 2003