Also, note that all the '-r' / '-c' syntaxes are directly related to peg
revisions --- they are always interpreted relative to some peg revision
(which, in this case, is the implicit "BASE" peg provided by
svn_opt_push_implicit_dot_target())
Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 19:34:06 +0100:
> On 24.02.2013 19:14, Gabriela Gibson wrote:
> > On 24/02/13 17:57, Branko Čibej 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
>
> --
> Branko Čibej
> Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
>
Received on 2013-02-25 13:50:10 CET