RE: Subversion misses (was RE: Subversion vs. StarTeam)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:19 PM
> To: Bolstridge, Andrew
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion misses (was RE: Subversion vs. StarTeam)
[snip]
>
> >>    * Complex URL scheme makes diffing between branches or tags
> difficult.
>
> It's not bad, it's just that the URL structure gets a bit clumsy at
> times. Subversion is suppose to be a replacement for CVS, and in CVS,
> to diff between to branches, you did this:
>
> $ cvs diff -rBRANCH_1-0,BRANCH_1-1
>
> While in Subversion, it's this:
>
> $ svn diff http://subversion/dev/proj/branches/1.0
> http://subversion/dev/proj/branches/1.1
>

I've just noticed the Repository root relative URLs feature in 1.6:

http://sub-subversion.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-you-should-use-subversion-16.html

I use Tortoise, so I don't care for this feature too much, it still looks like it'd help you a little:
   Svn diff ^/dev/proj/branches/1.0 ^/dev/proj/branches/1.1

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Received on 2009-05-20 10:28:34 CEST