Re: Cannot diff after file rename

Martin Furter wrote:
> All 3 diffs work for me with debian's subversion 1.2.3dfsg1-3, the
> output was:

Thanks Martin. I just installed 1.2.3 for Windows and can confirm that
it works OK there too, so this looks like a 1.3.0 regression.

Simon

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> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Simon Large wrote:
> 
>> Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Simon Large wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Having renamed and modified a file in the same commit, I am unable to
>>>> diff the current revision against the previous one using its new name.
>>>> Am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug? Using svn 1.3.0.
>>>>
>>> svn diff --old=OLDURL@OLDREV --new=newfile
>>>
>>> So, you need to specify both the old and new name and another problem is
>>> that you can't specify a non-existing WC path, so you need to us an URL.
>>>
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1902
>>> seems relevant to the last part.
>>
>> I thought the whole point of a pegrev was that it allowed history 
>> tracing without me having to do the legwork of finding out what the 
>> URL was in a previous revision.
>>
>> Another data point for you:
>> I have made a small change to the recipe on line 15. If I modify 
>> TestB.txt instead of TestA.txt, the following diff works across the 
>> name change. This makes me think there is more to this than first 
>> appears.
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