On Aug 5, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> I've heard both kfogel and ghudson say that they think 'diff' and
>> 'merge' should behave consistently, but I think this is a
>> potentially dangerous goal.
>> The diff command has three distinct abilities:
>> * compare working to text-base
>> * compare working to repository
>> * compare repository to repository.
>>
>
> That's not an accurate categorisation of "svn diff"'s abilities.
> For example, it can also compare text-base to repository ("diff -
> rBASE:23 WC-PATH") and working to working ("diff --old=WC1 --
> new=WC2").
Yep, --old and --new seem to allow a whole bunch of possibilities.
But if you actually try anything beyond those three cases above,
you'll get an 'unsupported' error. They're the only codepaths that
exist, I'm pretty sure.
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Received on Fri Aug 5 19:03:28 2005