RE: update --dry-run (again) [Was: Know before downloading trunk how many files I'm going to download.]

> I may be missing something obvious, but what would svn update
> --dry-run provide which svn status -u would not? svn st -u
> shows what's changed locally and what's changed in the
> repository, so one could see where conflicts might arise upon
                                               ^^^^^
> updating, no?
>

Well, as you said, and as I commented in
<http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-10/0465.shtml>,
        $ svn st -u
shows where conflicts *might* occur.

On the other hand,
        $ svn up --dry-run
would show where they *will* occur.

Given that SVN already provides --dry-run for merge,
I'm surprised that there is so much resistance to introducing this
option for the update command.

My impression is also that other users would find this option useful
for other reasons.

I'd *also* quite like to see the remote changes without my local
changes,
that is, show what files will be updated to my working copy
irrespective of my local changes. That's a slightly separate issue.

Thanks,
Rob.

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