Re: Oddity with svn diff on moved/renamed files.

Bas Mevissen wrote:

> Brian Denny wrote:
>
>> Meantime, my vote is to generate the add-diff. We're all so used to
>> tools which *don't* follow copy history that it's not hard to ignore
>> that output if it's irrelevant to your use case. If you want a patch,
>> OTOH, it's very necessary.
>>
>
> That's my vote too. I don't think it will break anything when this
> becomes the default behaviour of svn diff.

But what about the use case of just wanting to see your local mods? My
impression is that people run 'svn diff' for that purpose much more
often than they run 'svn diff' to generate a patch. I certainly do.

I don't think we should completely toss one use-case away. The status
quo breaks the ability to create patches, and your proposal breaks the
ability to see local mods.

I guess what I was thinking was (maybe?) we choose a default behavior,
and add some sort of new option to 'svn diff' that toggles the other
behavior. Is that crazy?

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Received on Fri Apr 9 14:59:32 2004