Re: newbie question regarding svn diff -c

On Sep 17, 2007, at 14:02, ion wrote:

> I have a repository that I branched using svn copy <url>/trunk
> <url>/branches/my-proj-branch r38
> did a checkout of both the trunk and the branch into separate dirs
> modified a file in the trunk workarea and committed successfully,
> creating r39
>
> the branch workarea is still at r38
>
> but
>
> from the branch workarea, svn diff -c 39 does not show the
> modification made on the trunk
>
> the example in the book indicates that it should show the changes
> made.
>
> is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
> any help will be appreciated.

As others have said, what you see is normal. You asked for the diff
of changeset 39 in the branch working copy, but changeset 39 did not
affect the branch, so no change is shown.

If you show us the passage in the book you're referring to, we could
see if maybe it could be reworded to be clearer.

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Received on Thu Sep 20 23:45:57 2007