On 04/20/2017 09:58 PM, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> On 04/20/2017 06:52 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alexey Neyman [mailto:stilor_at_att.net]
>>> Sent: donderdag 20 april 2017 02:59
>>> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
>>> Subject: svn generates long lists of empty diffs with --diff-cmd
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed that SVN generates a lot of spurious diffs when using a
>>> --diff-cmd option that look like this:
>>>
>>> Index: arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c
>>> ==========================================================
>>> =========
>>> Index: arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
>>> ==========================================================
>>> =========
>>>
>>> Is it possible to suppress such empty diffs? This makes the tools like
>>> ReviewBoard (www.reviewboard.org) examine a lot of unchanged files and
>>> slows them down considerably and unnecessary.
>> What argument do you pass to --diff-cmd ?
> svn diff --diff-cmd=diff
>> Is it possible that the files are actually different, but your diff
>> command reports that they are not different (e.g. after normalizing
>> whitespace). I think this header is printed on changed files, right
>> before invoking the diff command.
> No, plain 'svn diff' does not show any differences, not even
> properties. For example:
>
> [aneyman_at_rhel-build2 src]$ svn diff $URL/SETUP.bash SETUP.bash
> [aneyman_at_rhel-build2 src]$ svn diff --diff-cmd=diff $URL/SETUP.bash
> SETUP.bash
> Index: SETUP.bash
> ===================================================================
Some more information:
- While the properties on the file itself are the same, the inherited
properties differ (at least, svn:mergeinfo on the parent directory).
- This behavior is observed on 1.10.0-dev, 1.9.x and 1.8.x. Subversion
1.7.x does not display these spurious "Index:" lines.
Regards,
Alexey.
Received on 2017-04-21 07:44:37 CEST