RE: Re: What does 'svn diff' do?

How can I get a build of subversion 1.1.4 with _svn in the svn_wc.h file so I can use command line with windows? I have the correct version of tortoise that we use here, it does CHECKOUT using _svn format, but when I try to command line commit, or something to this nature, it doesn't recognize the folder as being a working folder. I will take any build that is compatible with this one as long as it has the _svn in it, ive tried building it over and over, just wont work for me!!!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:06 PM
To: Malcolm Rowe
Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: What does 'svn diff' do?

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 16:36 +0100, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> Okay - just so that I understand this: in the case where you have only
> modified existing files, the output of 'svn diff' should be always be
> equivalent to the naïve output that GNU diff would produce, given the
> two trees. In all other cases, we will need to choose (or have already
> chosen) between that, and producing 'more useful' output. Is that
> approximately correct?

Yes.

> So, as a concrete example, does that mean that, if we were to decide
> that file or directory renames would be better reported as no-content
> 'renames' in diff output rather than full-content 'delete/add' pairs,
> we would be happy to make that change by default? [I'm not suggesting
> that this _is_ a change we'd want to make, but if we _did_, could we?]

I'd say so.

> If people are relying on the current behaviour, then it sounds the
> answer to my question above is "no". Is the definition of 'svn diff'
> therefore effectively "whatever we have now"?

"svn diff" should, by default, present tree changes in the most reviewable way possible, because that's how it generally works now and I think people rely on that. That's not the same as saying 'the definition of svn diff is the output svn diff produces'.

> For example, IIRC, issue #2333 basically boils down to the fact that
> repos-repos diffs don't report subtree deletions. The other modes
> (repos->wc, wc->wc) _do_ report such deletions, but since we don't
> have a definition of what 'svn diff' should report, how do we decide
> which, if either, should change?
>
> Do we really have to do all this on an ad hoc basis?

It's true that "present tree changes in the most reviewable way possible" is a somewhat more squishy definition than "present tree changes in a way that they will be reflected by patch". But I don't think it's the same as deciding everything on an ad hoc basis.

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