On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:47:52AM -0700, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> On Saturday, August 14, 2010 04:31:44 am Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > Judging from the commit message, this option should mimic 'git log -p'
> > > behavior, but git does not dump the whole diff by default when -p is
> > > specified. It only diffs the requested path and produces a full diff only
> > > if --full-diff option is also passed.
> >
> > There is no need for a --full-diff option.
> > If you have a commit with two paths, A and B, and you run svn log --diff A,
> > you will only see a diff for A. So you can limit the scope of the diff
> > shown by limiting the log operation to just the paths you are interested
> > in.
>
> I know that 'svn log' can take multiple paths. But still, there is a use case
> for --full-diff:
>
> a) One does not know the list of changed paths beforehand. Therefore, one
> first needs to run 'svn log -v' to find what paths were changed and then run
> 'svn log --diff' with those paths. This may be quite inconvenient if the paths
> are scattered over the repository.
>
> b) Suppose A is the on which one wants log with diffs; B and C are paths that
> were changed alongside A:
>
> rev X1: A B
> rev X2: B
> rev X3: A C
> rev X4: C
>
> Even if full list of paths is supplied, 'svn log --diff A B C' would show
> revisions X1, X2, X3, X4, while 'svn log --diff --full-diff A' would have
> shown only revisions X1 and X3 (but with corresponding changes
> to paths B and C)
Hmmm. You could also list the revisions you want explicitly, but that
would be awkward to use in complicated cases so I see your point.
Would you like to try to write and submit a patch that implements this option?
> > It may be possible to show the diff anyway treating one of the sides as
> > empty as you suggest, and thus showing a diff with only adds/deletes.
> > I agree that this would make sense.
> >
> > But making such a change may require substantial work within the Subversion
> > libraries, so it takes more time than the quick band-aid fix which I
> > applied to log-cmd.c to make it produce at least some sort of meaningful
> > output. Sometimes circumstances force people to take short cuts...
>
> Thing is, current approach does not work at all if the parent directory was
> also added in the same revision as the path being logged. Try this:
>
> [[[
> #! /bin/bash
> rm -rf tst-repo tst-wc
> svnadmin create tst-repo
> svn mkdir -m commit_1 "file://`pwd`/tst-repo/a"
> svn co "file://`pwd`/tst-repo/a" tst-wc
> svn mkdir tst-wc/b
> echo 3 > tst-wc/b/3
> echo 4 > tst-wc/b/4
> svn add tst-wc/b/[34]
> svn ci -m commit_2 tst-wc
> svn log --diff tst-wc/b/3
> ]]]
>
> 'svn log' at the end of this script hangs indefinitely.
That was a silly bug I fixed yesterday. Please update your working copy,
rebuild, and check. Your script runs fine for me with current trunk.
> > It should show a diff which shows things as added. We need the output to
> > be suitable for use with svn patch. A special message that only humans
> > will understand isn't useful. Showing a diff with too broad a scope is
> > much better than showing no diff at all.
>
> Given that the changes are in the last-revision-first order, this patch would
> only be applicable in the reverse direction (if it contains more than one
> revision).
The last-revision-first order only affects the order in which revisions
are listed. svn log --diff always shows diffs from revision N-1 to revision N,
so the revision range of the log operation should not matter.
Stefan
Received on 2010-08-15 21:59:33 CEST