On 3/18/07, Tom Malia <tommalia@ttdsinc.com> wrote:
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> I realize this may be the wrong place to ask this question, but feel free
> to direct me to a better location if that is the case.
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> I'm considering switching from Visual Source Safe to Subversion.
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> For all it's short comings, there are a few feature that I like about VSS
> that I'm not currently seeing in Subversion. One of those is, the ability
> to run a "Diff" on an entire project in the repository against a "working"
> directory without having to check anything out, and do this in a GUI
> environment instead of command line. So basically what happens is the
> repository directory is treated like any other directory in the file system
> and you can do a recursive Directory/file Diff, selecting the project folder
> in the repository and any other directory (real or repository).
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> Is there any way to do the same thing against a folder in a Subversion
> repository?
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> This feature is particularly convenient when I just want to get a quick
> scan of whether the source code in some directory in my real file system is
> in anyway different than the current latest version in source code control.
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> So far, issuing TSVN it looks like have to actually checkout a project
> before I can perform any DIFF functions on it. Is this correct?
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Subversion cannot perform a diff against an arbitrary directory of files, it
has to be a Subversion working copy. However, once you have a working copy,
you can certainly do this.
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on Sun Mar 18 15:38:02 2007