"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:
> 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. =)
This is not intended behavior, it looks like a serious bug.
Since I already asked you to file one bug for us (regarding
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301989), I'll take
care of filing this one :-).
Done:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2333
By the way, while I was poking around in the mailing list archives to
file the above, I ran across the archive URL for your other bug
report, 301989, the one about trashing your terminal by diffing a
symbolic link. Since the finding things in the archives can sometimes
be a pain, I thought I'd save you time by giving you that URL now:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=101323
-Karl
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Received on Tue Jun 14 01:04:40 2005