Re: BAD! 'svn diff' exits with 0 when some difference exists.

On 8/19/06, Chen（陈� Jun（军� <chjfth@hotmail.com> wrote:
> For SVN 1.3.2 .
>
> I've just found that 'svn diff' command's exit-code is 0 even if it has
> found some difference.

I think this is intentional; when the 'svn' binary returns 0, it
means "no error happened", and non-zero means "an error happened".
It's certainly not an error to print out a difference! I might argue
that 'cvs diff' is being a bit strange when it does this.

> If 'svn diff' always return 0, it will be programmatically hard to
> know when difference occurs and stop the make system.

How about just looking at stdout? If anything is printed to stdout,
there's a difference. Doesn't that make more sense anyway?
Received on Sat Aug 19 18:00:34 2006