Hi again,
Again a quick intro: I'm a Debian developer who is helping out with the
subversion packages. I'm not the maintainer, bug doing some bug triage. This
bug was reported recently, and I thought I'd forward it here for your
thoughts:
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> wrote:
> svn diff's output is incomplete, it ignores the deletion of
> directories. Check these two commands, they only differ in the order of
> arguments.
>
> ametzler@costa:~$ svn diff \
> svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/tags/4.50-4 \
> svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk \
> | wc 2>/dev/null
> 6519 40286 293933
> ametzler@costa:~$ svn diff \
> svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk \
> svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/tags/4.50-4 \
> | wc 2>/dev/null
> 10687 58798 452521
>
> Redirecting the outputs to files and comparing their contents with
> lsdiff [1] shows that the former command does not show the information
> about deletion of the debian/exim4-config-medium and
> debian/exim4-config-simple directory trees.
> cu andreas
>
> [1] or alternatively using combinediff.
Perhaps this is just misinterpreting intended behavior, but I thought I'd
forward this here to get your wise opinions. =)
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Received on Fri Jun 10 02:19:09 2005