Nathan Dauchy wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> If you'd like to see a new feature, write up a description of how you
>> would want it to behave (i.e. exactly what level of detail you would
>> expect), and post here.
>>
>
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>> I believe this idea has been discussed before as "svn diff -q"
>> functionality. But I don't see any enhancement issue filed for it,
>> so Nathan if you want to put your writeup in an issue, that would be
>> great.
>>
>
> Max, Karl, and everyone else,
>
> I don't know all the nuances of the interface design decisions to best
> make this fit with the rest of Subversion, but here goes...
>
> A "-s" ("--summarize") option should be added to the "svn diff"
> capability. This will reduce the output to a single line for each file
> or directory that has changed between two URL's. It should also work
> for two revisions and a single URL. For consistency, I imagine this
> would look similar to "svn status", but instead of operating on a
> working copy, it would operate on two revisions in the repository.
>
> Coupled with this should be "-q" ("--quiet") and "-v" ("--verbose")
> options to display additional information. Verbose output with "-s"
> should still only display a single line per file.
>
> I think the following information would be helpful to include in the
> output:
> * Whether the item is a file, directory, (or anything else?)
> * Whether the change was a content or property change
> * What was the revision prior to any changes
> * What was the revision after all changes
> * Who committed the last change
>
> So, how would this look? Roughly following the "svn status" syntax,
> here is a starting point:
> First column says if the item was added, deleted, or otherwise changed
> Second column determines if there were property changes
> Third column says if the item is a directory, or otherwise not a file
> Remaining fields are variable width and delimited by spaces:
> (with -v) Last revision number prior to change
> (with -v) Last changed revision number
> (with -v) Author of last changed revision
> Path, relative to the given URLs.
>
> $ svn diff -s http://repos/tags/rel1 http://repos/tags/rel2
> A /path/to/file1
> MM /path/to/file2
> A D /path/to/a_new_dir
> D /path/to/file3
>
> $ svn diff -s -v http://repos/tags/rel1 http://repos/tags/rel2
> A 120 145 bob /path/to/file1
> MM 100 111 joe /path/to/file2
> A D 120 120 jane /path/to/a_new_dir
> 80 80 bob /path/to/unchanged_file
> D 101 130 bob /path/to/file3
>
> Notes:
> The -v option should list ALL files in either tag.
> "last revision prior to change" for newly added files should be the
> revision in which it was added. One should be able to checkout the
> first listed revision of all the files (that don't have an "A" in the
> first column) and get rel1. Similarly, "last changed revision"
> for deleted files should be the revision in which it was deleted.
> Checking out the 2nd listed revision of all files (without a "D" in the
> first column) should be equivalent to checking out rel2.
>
> Please let me know if any of the above isn't clear. I look forward to
> reading other opinions on this functionality, and how the information
> should be presented!
Thanks - that's a thoughrough description for a useful new feature. I would
make the following change:
"The extra -v information columns are padded with spaces in the same manner
as svn status -v"
Could you file an issue (of type=FEATURE)? Hopefully someone (maybe me, but
no promises) will be able to code it before 1.2.
Max.
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Received on Fri Aug 20 20:31:24 2004