Josh Pieper wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
>>>The patch could be applied nearly as is with no loss in functionality,
>>>but you won't get much benefit since diffs over renames still won't be
>>>what you expect. If that approach sounds good, I will clean up the
>>>work so far and post it again for review. Otherwise we can wait until
>>>the update driver issue is figured out.
>>
>>Can we anchor the update editor higher up, maybe, like at root?
>>
>>(Thinking out loud, not able to do in-depth analysis atm...)
>
>
> Yes, but that is only half the problem. If the file itself is
> renamed, the update driver always issues a complete removal of the old
> file, which causes the diff output to be less than useful.
Hold on: svn_repos_dir_delta() is the ultimate driver of all editors,
if you trace back far enough in any stack. My memory tells me that it
has a mode which tells it to "be stupid", i.e. ignore ancestry. For
example, when you pass the --ignore-ancestry switch to 'svn merge', it
will never delete and re-add something; it just does ignorant
path-based comparisons.
Or is the problem completely unrelated to ancestry?
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Received on Wed May 12 04:08:17 2004