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Re: svn diff -c does not accept HEAD

From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:44:21 +0300

Nathan Hartman:

> A possible rationale is that the HEAD revision could
> change without your knowledge (e.g., another user commits
> something in the meantime) and you wouldn't get the
> revision you were expecting.
>
> When I want to see the diff of the most recent revision I
> use 'svn log -l 1 --diff'. (Note, though, that will be
> from the BASE revision, not HEAD.)

Thanks for the explanation, Nathan and Daniel, but svn diff
-c does not support `BASE' either. Futhermore, from the
viewpoint of consistency, it would be natural for -c and -r
to accept exactly the same set of values, whose parsing
would be implemented in the same piece of code.
Received on 2020-12-08 13:44:53 CET

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