Re: Error in online svnbook (r2799)

On May 30, 2007, at 09:30, Michael Leahy wrote:

> I was just looking up branching and merging in the online svnbook,
> and I
> found some typos (incorrect command options).
>
> In chapter 4, Branching and Merging > Copying Changes Between
> Branches >
> Copying Specific Changes, I believe that incorrect syntax is used
> several
> times in the examples.
>
> svn diff -c 344 ...
> svn merge -c 344 ...
>
> Shouldn't those be
> svn diff -r 344 ...
> svn merge -r 344 ...
>
> Farther down, in "Previewing Merges", the '-c' appears again.
>
> The URL that I'm viewing is
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/
> svn.branchmerge.copychanges.html

The book is correct as written.

-c is new syntax available in recent Subversion versions. I believe
it stands for "changeset".

"svn diff -c 344 ..." is equivalent to "svn diff -r 343:344 ..."

As someone else already pointed out, the book has its own mailing list.

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Received on Thu May 31 02:13:11 2007