Re: Defaults of 'svn diff' not understood

Lukas Ruf wrote:
> I assume I can achieve this functionality by running:
>
> svn diff -r BASE:HEAD paper.tex
>
> But what is the reason that the latter form is not the default
> behaviour of 'svn diff'?

Because what you would normally want to know is how you have changed the file since your last
checkout/update. In Subversion this doesn't require communicating with the server as you have a
local pristine copy of your files.

I very rarely want to know what others have done to a file before I update, perhaps I have too much
faith in others to make reasonable changes and Subversion to merge it properly!

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Martin Tomes
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