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RE: Path parsing bug in svn diff

From: Oren Eini (Murphy & Associates) <v-orene_at_microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:14:09 -0700

Okay, that makes sense, thanks.

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From: dglasser_at_gmail.com [dglasser_at_gmail.com] On Behalf Of David Glasser [glasser_at_davidglasser.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:12 PM
To: Oren Eini (Murphy & Associates)
Cc: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Path parsing bug in svn diff

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Oren Eini (Murphy & Associates)
<v-orene_at_microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> Using svn 1.4, on Windows, I get the following error when executing this
> command:
> E:\OSS\rhino-tools>svn diff
> https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/trunk/default.build
> -r HEAD:PREV
> svn: Can't check path
> 'https:\\rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net\svnroot\rhino-tools\trunk\default.build':
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> This, however, works:
>
> E:\OSS\rhino-tools>svn diff
> https://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhino-tools/trunk/default.build
> -r 1283:1246

PREV is the revision before COMMITTED, not HEAD, and thus only makes
sense in the context of a working copy; so it is trying to parse your
URL as a path.

(You'd think you could use -c HEAD here, but it's not actually
implemented; see Issue #3041.)

--dave

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