On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 04:05:01AM +0200, Andreas Schweigstill wrote:
> Dear Jamie!
>
> Jamie Wellnitz schrieb:
> >This probably depends heavily on what is in your repository. If it's
> >source code, or at least mostly plain text, you could have them send
> >out the output of "svn diff". This will generate a patch in unified
> >diff format, which you can look over or even apply locally.
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't handle changed on the meta-information
> correctly, like moves/renames, copies or attribute changes.
True it's not perfect, but in a lot of environments the changes will
be mostly text. That's the case with C source code, for instance. As
I said, it depends heavily on what is in the repository.
But, svn diff doesn't ignore all metadata:
% svn diff
Property changes on: aaa.c
___________________________________________________________________
Name: local:needs-work
+ lines 500-505
Property changes on: bbb.c
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svn:executable
+ *
>
> With best regards
> Andreas Schweigstill
Thanks,
Jamie
>
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