Re: [RFC] Build System Documentation

On 24.02.2013 19:14, Gabriela Gibson wrote:
> On 24/02/13 17:57, Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
>> On 24.02.2013 18:21, Gabriela Gibson wrote:
>
>> "svn diff" on which target? :)
>>
>
> Well, "svn diff -c 858288" works great, so I assumed that it's legit :>
>
> (now I have to wonder _why_ this works, heh)
>
>> If I run your command on the root of a trunk checkout, the result is
>> empty, as expected, since there are no trunk changes in there. However,
>> if I say,
>
> Hmm, why should svn care about current changes and where I am when I
> ask it to show me the changes of revision n?

Becuase it knows how to filter the results based on given paths or URLs,
so that you can request a diff of the changes on just one file in a
particular revision, even if several files were affected. If you don't
give it a target, it uses the current path in the current working copy
as a filter.

-- Brane

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Branko ÄŒibej
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