Doesn't 'svn diff' say something to the effect of "A file with <this>
name was added"?
There is also:
% $svn h diff | grep add
--show-copies-as-adds [--sca] : don't diff copied or moved files with their source
... but I think it's only in 1.7.
Jahn Otto Andersen wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:20:00 +0100:
> I am using a code review tool called ReviewBoard to do code reviews. This
> tool uses svn diff to report the changes between BASE and work area.
>
>
>
> I'm having problems when working in a branch and then merging into trunk.
> This problem seems to be caused by the diff generated by svn diff.
>
>
>
> What I do:
>
> 1. Create a new branch based on trunk using TortoiseSVN's "branch" function
> 2. Commit several changes into the branch, including creating new files
> 3. Reintegrate branch into trunk using TortoiseSVN's "reintegrate branch"
> function.
> 4. Generate the diff using svn diff and use this for the code review
>
> The problem is:
>
> The diff that is created by svn diff does not contain the new file. The diff
> file contains the following lines (given that the new file is named
> NewFile.cs):
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Property changes on: NewFile.cs
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Modified: svn:mergeinfo
> Merged /blabla/branches/mybranch/NewFile.cs:r11226-11336
> ---------------------
>
>
>
> It seems like the diff contains information about the fact that the new file
> is being merged into trunk from the branch, but it doesn't contain the
> actual lines in the new file. As a result, the review request in ReviewBoard
> doesn't contain NewFile.cs at all.
>
> Is there any way I can make svn diff include the new lines in the new file?
>
>
>
Received on 2010-11-15 16:57:57 CET