Hi Philip / Julian, Just thought I would send this thread back to you both and see if there was going to be anything further happening with it, or can I drop it from my todo list?
Gavin. On 04/12/2009, at 01:00 , Philip Martin wrote: > Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> writes: > >> Philip Martin wrote: >>> Julian Foad <julian.f...@wandisco.com> writes: >>> >>>>>>> $ svn diff ^/repo/branches/foo ^/repo/branches/bar --repos=[URL|WC] >>>>>> >>>>>> But that's much harder to type. >>>> >>>> Yup. :-) But not if you configure it somewhere so you don't have to type >>>> it. >>> >>> So your solution is I should define an alias that allows me to type >>> 'svndiff ^/foo ^/bar wc' to run 'svn diff ^/foo ^/bar --repos=wc'. >> >> I didn't say that. > > Then I'm not sure what you did mean. > >>> I'd prefer to fix the client. >>> >>>>> Also the new syntax is consistent >>>>>> with most of the other commands that use '.' as a default, if one >>>>>> doesn't want to use '.' one specifies the path explicitly: >>>> >>>> No, hardly any commands take a WC argument which they only use to >>>> identify the repository. They nearly all focus their behaviour onto the >>>> particular path you specify. >>> >>> Off the top of my head: >>> >>> $ svn log -rNNN >>> $ svn list ^/branches >>> $ svn diff -cNNN >>> >>> all will fail if wc is not a working copy and all will succeed if I >>> add a wc path. >> >> Sure, but they will produce output that relates to the WC path you >> specify, not just use it to find a repository and ignore it otherwise. > > Perhaps. However > > $ svn list ^/subversion/branches ../src/COMMITTERS > > appears to use it just find a repository, and > > $ svn merge ^/foo ^/bar wc > > behaves in almost exactly the way I would like diff to behave. I > agree it does use the wc path beyond merely constructing URLs, but the > way it constructs URLs is the way I would like diff to behave. > >>> Comparing two branches in a repository is not an obscure operation. >>> We should make it easy to invoke. >> >> Sure. I agree. >> >> Can you come on IRC #svn-dev where we can discuss more easily? (Actually >> I must go get some lunch and put dinner in the oven now, but in an hour >> or so?) > > OK. > > -- > Philip > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=2426707 > > Please start new threads on the <dev@subversion.apache.org> mailing list. > To subscribe to the new list, send an empty e-mail to > <dev-subscr...@subversion.apache.org>.
