Hi Mark,
> > My problem is that under CVS (from eclipse) I can compare a working
copy
> of a file with any tag of
> > the repository (just a mouse click) but with subclipse I
> can do that only
> with revision numbers
> > (such as 1256) and that is not convenient.
>
> That is just because we have not implemented a Compare with Branch/Tag
> feature yet. It doesn't mean we need to invent some new
> concept to do it.
> When the feature is implemented, I would imagine we would just have a
> dialog where you told us th URL to compare with. Just like
> the Branch/Tag
> and Switch dialogs.
>
> I imagine no one has tackled this yet because they want to do it
> efficiently, and cannot figure out how to do so. For
> example, Subversion
> can give us the differences in unified diff format pretty
> efficiently, but
> the Eclipse compare engine does not allow us to just past
> that info to it.
> To use the Eclipse GUI, I think we have to essentially do a
> full checkout
> of the target URL and the let Eclipse compare them. Perhaps
> it can be done
> slightly more efficiently by running the svn ls command on
> the target URL
> and then only downloading the files where the revision number
> is different
> from the WC.
>
> A problem here is that by not allowing Subversion to do the
> compare, I do
> not know that the feature would be able to take advantage of
> Subversion's
> ability to maintain the relationship between files that are moved or
> copied.
How does compare with revision work (from the revision history)?
Why is this any different?
Cheers,
Ian Brockbank
Applications Software Team Leader
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Received on Mon Jul 11 19:23:31 2005