Can anyone reply to this? Is this a bug as I suspect, or am I missing
something?
Thanks.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, JJ <eggsgloriouseggs_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Below is a recipe for reproducing some odd behavior with diff --summarize.
>
> The "problem" I'm seeing is that when I diff two tags, paths are always
> displayed using the URL to the oldest tag. I'd expect the youngest tag to
> be used in the returned paths, since that tag represents the final state of
> those files after modifications. In particular the output is incorrect when
> a file is added between tag a and b, since the new file doesn't exist in the
> previous tag. See the script below as well as it's "incorrect" output.
>
>
> PWD=`pwd`
> REPO=$PWD/repo
> WC=$PWD/wc
> svnadmin create $REPO
> svn co file://$REPO $WC
> svn mkdir $WC/trunk $WC/tags $WC/branches
> echo "hello world" > $WC/trunk/one.txt
> svn add $WC/trunk/one.txt
> svn ci -m "Initial commit" $WC
> svn up $WC
> svn cp -m "create tag a" file://$REPO/trunk file://$REPO/tags/a
> svn up $WC
> echo "hi there" > $WC/trunk/two.txt
> svn add $WC/trunk/two.txt
> svn ci -m "Add two.txt" $WC
> svn up $WC
> svn cp -m "create tag b" file://$REPO/trunk file://$REPO/tags/b
> svn up $WC
> svn diff --summarize file://$REPO/tags/a file://$REPO/tags/b
>
>
> Checked out revision 0.
> A /home/svnadm/wc/trunk
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags
> A /home/svnadm/wc/branches
> A /home/svnadm/wc/trunk/one.txt
> Adding wc/branches
> Adding wc/tags
> Adding wc/trunk
> Adding wc/trunk/one.txt
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 1.
> At revision 1.
> Committed revision 2.
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags/a
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags/a/one.txt
> Updated to revision 2.
> A /home/svnadm/wc/trunk/two.txt
> Adding wc/trunk/two.txt
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 3.
> At revision 3.
> Committed revision 4.
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags/b
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags/b/one.txt
> A /home/svnadm/wc/tags/b/two.txt
> Updated to revision 4.
> A file:///home/svnadm/repo/tags/a/two.txt
> ^
> ^
> This should be tag b, since two.txt
> didn't even exist on tag a!
> Has this problem been reported yet? Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> JJ
>
Received on 2008-09-25 14:59:47 CEST