Trevor Harmon <trevor@vocaro.com> writes:
> I'm interested in adding support for a --no-diff-added parameter to
> the svn client. This would be a complement to the existing --no-diff-
> deleted parameter, which prevents Subversion from printing
> differences for deleted files. It's strange that --no-diff-deleted is
> supported while --no-diff-added was left out. I'm certainly not the
> first person to desire it [2] [3].
>
> I was about to put together a patch, but then I was told that the
> lack of --no-diff-added may be deliberate. Is this true? What's the
> reason for its absence? Thanks,
The answer might be somewhere in this list's archives. ISTR that it
was something like:
"If a file was deleted, it might be not interesting to see all the
lines that went away, since they're gone now -- so we should
support --no-diff-deleted in 'svn'. But if a file is added, you
usually want to see all the new lines, because they exist now, so
--no-diff-added would be less useful."
While this convinces me that --no-diff-added is usually less useful
than --no-diff-deleted, that doesn't mean never useful, and I'd be
happy to see a patch adding that option.
You'll want to read http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html
and especially http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#patches.
Best,
-Karl
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Received on Sat Nov 3 00:13:38 2007