Symbolic Name for Working Copy

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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