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Re: option equivalent to cvs's -n

From: Travis P <svn_at_castle.fastmail.fm>
Date: 2004-05-03 17:19:57 CEST

On May 3, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 02:01, Bryan Dyck wrote:
>> Hi Raghu...
>>
>> Just as an FYI, there's a very comprehensive online Subversion manual
>> at <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>.
>
> The two commands which change your working copy are 'svn update' and
> 'svn merge'. The --dry-run option is for previewing a merge. To
> preview an update, run 'svn status -u' and look for asterisks.

The useful information that 'cvs -n update' provides but 'svn status
-u' does not
is whether or not a conflict will occur. Knowing whether a conflict
will occur
prior to updating (or switching, the more general case) would be very
useful.
It lets me know how much time I might need to allocate fixing things up
were I to update/switch. If there's no conflict, no time need be spend
resolving
conflicts.

I was disappointed just this past weekend to find that update and switch
had no --dry-run switch. Is there any technique to get this information?

-Travis

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