RE: Resolution of 'svn diff' change?

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 13:52, Sander Striker wrote:
> Say that some file is called 'C' in my working copy. It was called 'B'
> in revision N and 'A' in revision M. Now, what would this do:
>
> svn diff --old=URL-OF-WC@M --new=URL-OF-WC@N A

I had proposed that paths are relative to new-target. Here is a usage
message, adapted from Jan's, with a special case to preserve "svn diff
-r N:M URL" as requested by Phillip. (I admit, that blows a hole in my
"with no corner cases" assertion. But it's just a convenient shorthand
for the normal use case. Another option would be to make an option
which sets both OLD-TARGET and NEW-TARGET, which would allow for "svn
diff -r N[:M] --fabledoption=TARGET path1 path2 ...". That really gets
back into bikeshed-painting territory, though.)

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diff (di): display the differences between two paths[1].
usage: 1. svn diff [-r N[:M]] [--old=OLD-TARGET] [--new=NEW-TARGET] [PATH ...]
       2. svn diff -r N[:M] URL
  1. Displays the differences between OLD-TARGET and NEW-TARGET.  If
     PATHs are given, displays only differences in those paths, relative
     to NEW-TARGET.  OLD-TARGET and NEW-TARGET may be local wc path or
     URL[@REV].  OLD-TARGET defaults to "BASE", NEW-TARGET to ´.´
     '-r N' sets revision of OLD-TARGET to N.  '-r N:M' also sets
     revision of NEW-TARGET to M.
  2. Shorthand for 'svn diff -r N[:M] --old=URL --new=URL'.
Use just 'svn diff' to display the local modifications in your wc.
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Does anyone else want to have a crack at implementing this?  I feel like
my implementation effort would be better spent fixing bogons in ra_svn
(and making all the backward-incompatible changes while the user base is
still relatively low).  If we can all agree on a syntax but no one wants
to implement it, we could file it away in the issue for later.
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