Re: svn_client_diff4 and valid relative path throws error even though it shouldn't

On Nov 23, 2007 2:54 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just updated to r27993 of the svn trunk. The new param relative_to_dir
> in svn_client_diff4() is nice, but it doesn't work in some situations:
>
> a diff between a working copy file and it's base throws an error like this:
> Path 'C:\Users\kueng\AppData\Local\Temp/svndiff.tmp' must be an
> immediate child of the directory
> 'D:/Development/SVN/TortoiseSVN/ext/Subversion'
>
> The problem: I didn't specify any temp file path. That path comes from
> the fact that the diff first 'translates' the base file (line endings,
> maybe keywords, ...), and by doing so creates that temporary file.
>
> I would expect that since it was the svn function itself that created
> that temp file, it shouldn't error out but check the original path instead.
>
> To reproduce:
> * modify the file subversion\libsvn_subr\config_win.c
> * call svn_client_diff4(path, REVWC, path, REVBASE,
> 'subversion\libsvn_subr', ...)

Stefan,

Take a look at the latest patch in Issue#: 2723

That seems to fix it for me.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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