Diffing a moved file can fail

Please see the attached script for a demo of how diffing a moved file
can fail. It creates two files, file1.c file2.c and moves them into
subdirectories dir1 and dir2 respectively.

The diff of file1.c fails, the diff of file2.c succeeds, seemingly it's
dependent on whether the copy-from revision predates the revision of the
copy-to directory.

Tested on WinXP SP3. SVN 1.5.0 - symptoms also observed on latest TSVN
which uses SVN 1.5.3.

REM My CWD is C:\SVN\tests
set REPO=file:///c:/SVN/tests/test_repo

svnadmin create test_repo
svn co %REPO% test_wc

cd test_wc

REM Create file first, then directory
echo "Some text" > file1.c
svn add file1.c
svn ci . -m"Create a file"
svn mkdir dir1
svn ci . -m"Create a directory"
echo "More text" >> file1.c

REM Create directory first, then file
svn mkdir dir2
svn ci . -m"Create a directory"
echo "Some text" > file2.c
svn add file2.c
svn ci . -m"Create a file"
echo "More text" >> file2.c

svn mv file1.c dir1
svn mv file2.c dir2

svn ci . -m"Files moved and modififed - modification isn't important but makes for a better demo"

svn diff dir1/file1.c -r PREV
svn diff dir2/file2.c -r PREV

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Received on 2008-10-21 10:48:10 CEST