Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> 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.
Negative. You try it, or watch me try it:
$ svn diff -rBASE:23 t
Index: t
[...]
- Julian
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Received on Fri Aug 5 19:55:56 2005