Re: 'svn merge -rX' UI annoyance.

On Aug 5, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:33 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> The diff command has three distinct abilities:
>>
>> * compare working to text-base
>> * compare working to repository
>> * compare repository to repository.
>>
>> Of these three use-cases, *only* the third one is similar to 'svn
>> merge'.
>>
>
> Take a look at "svn help merge". I think you have an overly
> restrictive
> notion of what our merge command can do.
>

'svn merge' may have flexible syntax, but merge *always* compares two
revisions in the repository. In that sense, it's always equivalent
to the 3rd case of 'svn diff'.

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Received on Fri Aug 5 18:38:34 2005