Defaults of 'svn diff' not understood

[Lukas Ruf <ru...@rawip.org>]

Dear all,

collaborating with others I really like subversion.  However, there is
one issue I do not understand; see the log of the following action:

komsys-pc-ruf:PAPER04!62> svn diff paper.tex
komsys-pc-ruf:PAPER04!63> svn stat -v paper.tex
               43       42 ruf          paper.tex
komsys-pc-ruf:PAPER04!64> svn update paper.tex
UU paper.tex
Updated to revision 59.
komsys-pc-ruf:PAPER04!65>

The problem:
I am in a working copy.  My colleagues have done some commits.
Before I update my local copy.  I would like to see the diff'erence.

I assume I can achieve this functionality by running:

    svn diff -r BASE:HEAD paper.tex

But what is the reason that the latter form is not the default
behaviour of 'svn diff'?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Lukas
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Re: Defaults of 'svn diff' not understood

[Martin Tomes <li...@tomes.org>]

Lukas Ruf wrote:
> I assume I can achieve this functionality by running:
> 
>     svn diff -r BASE:HEAD paper.tex
> 
> But what is the reason that the latter form is not the default
> behaviour of 'svn diff'?

Because what you would normally want to know is how you have changed the file since your last 
checkout/update.  In Subversion this doesn't require communicating with the server as you have a 
local pristine copy of your files.

I very rarely want to know what others have done to a file before I update, perhaps I have too much 
faith in others to make reasonable changes and Subversion to merge it properly!

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Martin Tomes
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