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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Karl Chen <qu...@cs.berkeley.edu> on 2004/12/31 05:57:53 UTC
svn diff -r REV when REV==BASE
Hi,
Is there a reason "svn diff -r REV", when REV is the numeric BASE
revision, is a remote operation, while "svn diff -r BASE" is a
local operation?
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Karl 2004-12-30 21:53
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Re: svn diff -r REV when REV==BASE
Posted by Karl Chen <qu...@cs.berkeley.edu>.
>>>>> On 2005-01-01 19:12 PST, Greg Hudson writes:
Greg> On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:57, Karl Chen wrote:
>> Is there a reason "svn diff -r REV", when REV is the
>> numeric BASE revision, is a remote operation, while "svn
>> diff -r BASE" is a local operation?
Greg> Because working copies can have mixed revisions, it
Greg> would require a lot more cleverness on the part of the
Greg> client library to make "svn diff -r <what happens to be
Greg> the base rev>" a local operation.
I see, I hadn't thought about mixed-revision working copies.
Thanks for the reply.
(I was thinking about diffs on single files, i.e. "svn diff -r
<what happens to be BASE> file". The reason I asked was because
vc-svn.el does "svn diff -r <what happens to be BASE> file"
instead of "svn diff file" -- quite unusable when off-line. I did
consider this to be more easily fixed by vc-svn.el so I did submit
a patch to Emacs before asking Subversion. I thought it could be
a nice harmless improvement to all clients, but I suppose it's not
worth worrying about.)
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Karl 2005-01-01 20:35
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Re: svn diff -r REV when REV==BASE
Posted by Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>.
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:57, Karl Chen wrote:
> Is there a reason "svn diff -r REV", when REV is the numeric BASE
> revision, is a remote operation, while "svn diff -r BASE" is a
> local operation?
Because working copies can have mixed revisions, it would require a lot
more cleverness on the part of the client library to make "svn diff -r
<what happens to be the base rev>" a local operation.
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