Re: Question about moved/renamed files

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 14:05, Trevor Harrison wrote:
> I have moved a file from a subdirectory under my project to a different
> subdir.
>
> I then svn rm'd the old directory.
>
> The log still (correctly) shows the history of the file, but diff's such as:
>
> svn diff -r N:M newname
>
> fail with:
>
> svn: Filesystem has no item
> svn: 'http://svn.host.tld/trunk/project/subdir/newname' was not found in
> the repository at either revision N or M
>
> How do I do diffs in this instance?

This is issue 1093... "svn diff doesn't follow rename/copy history".

The workaround is to run 'svn log -v' on the file, and find out the
"old" path in revision N. Then run 'svn diff oldURL@N newURL@M'.

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Received on Wed Nov 26 19:30:16 2003