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Re: "svn diff -c" on a merged revision shows wrong parent rev

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:56:47 +0100

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:19 -0500, Franz Weller wrote:
> Using:
> svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
> compiled Sep 1 2009, 13:23:06
> Windows XP SP2
>
> Ran this command:
> "svn diff -c 8299 some_file.cpp"
>
> Output was:
> "Index: ddi_lba_nand_media.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- some_file.cpp (revision 8298)
> +++ some_file.cpp (revision 8299)
> (and subsequent difference details...)"
>
> Problem:
> The predecessor's revision 8298 is wrong.
> The actual predecessor is a different revision, "8278".
>
> Revision 8299 was created by merging from 8298 of a different URL into 8278,
> using "svn merge -c 8298 URL_B ."
>
> Here it is pictorially:
>
> URL_A URL_B
> r8278 r8298
> | /
> | /
> | /
> V V
> r8299
> URL_A
>
> The predecessor of 8299 is therefore 8278.
>
> Note that the difference details *are* correct. i.e. The difference
> contents
> do match the output of "svn diff -r 8278:8299 some_file.cpp". Only the
> revision number seems to be incorrect in the output of "svn diff -c 8299".

It is not incorrect. You are asking for the difference between
some_file.cpp (at URL_A) in r8298 of the repository and some_file.cpp
(at URL_A) in r8299 of the repository, and that is what it is showing
you. Note that some_file.cpp (at URL_A) in r8298 is exactly the same as
some_file.cpp (at URL_A) in r8278 because the file wasn't changed over
that range of revision history.

- Julian

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