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Symbolic Name for Working Copy

From: Schwarz, Konrad <konrad.schwarz_at_siemens.com>
Date: 2006-12-22 12:37:21 CET

Hi,

Subversion has symbolic revision labels "HEAD", "BASE", ..., but is
missing one for the working copy. Although 'svn diff' defaults to the
working copy when a revision is omitted, I see no way of specifying it
explicitly.

Specifying the working copy revision explicitly is needed for reverse
diffs.

For example:

svn diff -r WORKING_COPY -r BASE --diff-cmd diff -x -e some_file >
some_file.ed

should produce an ed(1) script in some_file.ed that contains the changes
required to convert the working copy to the base revision.

This comes in handy when the working copy is the result of merging and a
few of the changes need to be backed out; this can be done cleanly by
editing "some_file.ed" to contain only the changes that need to be
backed out and applying the result.

Regards,

Konrad Schwarz

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