On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Scott Palmer]
> > I look at it this way:
> >
> > svn log -r5:8 describes revisions 5 to 8
> > svn diff -r5:8 describes what changed from revision 5 to 8
> >
> > The contents of revision 5 itself contains the changes that made
> > revision 4 into revision 5. Those aren't changes that happened
> > between r5 and r8.
>
> I still don't see a material difference between 'svn log -v' and
> 'svn diff', in terms of what they are describing. The exact
> information and presentation is different, but I use them both to
> answer the same question, "what has changed between M and N?"
you just answered your own question. there is a difference between
asking "what changed *between* revisions M and N?" and "what are the
changes represented by changes M *through* N?"
the first would be the diff, the second would be the log. sure, it's
pedantic. but it's based on the definition that the activity
represented by change, say, 5, is what happened to go from 4 to 5.
such is life.
rday
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Received on Sat Aug 6 11:02:42 2005