Re: Odd "diff" behavior

Hi Stefan,
> stsp_at_ted [wc] $ svn cp a b
> A b
> stsp_at_ted [wc] $ svn diff
> stsp_at_ted [wc] $ svn st
> A + b
> stsp_at_ted [wc] $ echo c > c
> stsp_at_ted [wc] $ svn add c
> A c

Have you ever tried this:

find -type f | xargs ls -al
than you see things like this:
.... .svn/entries
     .svn/format
     .svn/text-base/a
     .svn/text-base/b
     ./a
     ./b
     ./c

> Why isn't the diff for b shown?
> Was this a deliberate design decision?
>
And this is reason why svn diff will only print information for "c",
cause it's building the difference between the pristine copy (.svn) and
your working area. You see the missing "c" under .svn/text-base ?
So in the case of a copied file (b) it won't print out anything, cause
there is no difference between pristine copy and the working area.

On the other hand what kind of difference should it print out, cause it
copied from an existing file...so in consequence it should calculate the
difference between the target of the copy operation and the source but
this should print nothing at all...cause there is no difference between
the source and the destination...

Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise

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