svn diff fails to report differences (1.3.2)

[Robert La Ferla <ro...@comcast.net>]

I mistakenly posted this to the commit list instead of here:

Subversion command-line client, version 1.3.2.

After moving our SVN repository to another host (different machine  
with same host name), svn diff failed to work properly.  I had a work  
area on the repository system and commited my changes locally.  I  
then tried a "svn diff" from a remote client and it reported no  
changes!  However, when I did a "svn update", it got all my changes.

Seems to me (and I have not looked at the source) that the code that  
update uses to figure out what changed is different from the code  
that diff uses.  This inconsistency is a bad thing.
Also:

On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:

> Could you be a bit more specific? What commands did you use and what
> output did they generate? What was the expected output and where are
> the differences with what you actually got?

svn diff
svn update

I expected "svn diff" to show the changes that I had commited to the  
repository.  It didn't show anything at all.


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Re: svn diff fails to report differences (1.3.2)

[Robert La Ferla <ro...@comcast.net>]

> On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
>> Could you be a bit more specific? What commands did you use and what
>> output did they generate? What was the expected output and where are
>> the differences with what you actually got?
>
> svn diff
> svn update
>
> I expected "svn diff" to show the changes that I had commited to  
> the repository.  It didn't show anything at all.

Also, my changes were to multiple files.  What else can I provide  
that would help diagnose this bug?

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Re: svn diff fails to report differences (1.3.2)

[Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com>]

On 7/14/06, Robert La Ferla <ro...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I mistakenly posted this to the commit list instead of here:
>
> Subversion command-line client, version 1.3.2.
>
> After moving our SVN repository to another host (different machine
> with same host name), svn diff failed to work properly.  I had a work
> area on the repository system and commited my changes locally.  I
> then tried a "svn diff" from a remote client and it reported no
> changes!  However, when I did a "svn update", it got all my changes.
>
> Seems to me (and I have not looked at the source) that the code that
> update uses to figure out what changed is different from the code
> that diff uses.  This inconsistency is a bad thing.
> Also:
>
> On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
> > Could you be a bit more specific? What commands did you use and what
> > output did they generate? What was the expected output and where are
> > the differences with what you actually got?
>
> svn diff
> svn update
>
> I expected "svn diff" to show the changes that I had commited to the
> repository.  It didn't show anything at all.

'svn diff' reports changes in the working copy wrt the base version of
the working copy. Try 'svn diff -r HEAD' or, if you only want remote
changes 'svn diff -rBASE:HEAD'.

bye,

Erik.

PS: I suspected this would be the 'problem'. We call this 'user
error'. Could you post a bit more inquisitively instead of crying
loudly there are bugs in the software which are unacceptable? Lots of
people use these operations every day: this would have come out WAY
before you ever typed these commands.

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