On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:09:55AM +0200, Till Maas wrote: > Hiyas, > > as requested in the buddy peer review for feature requests I asked on > IRC for opinions to implement "svn diff -c PREV". There it was proposed > to ask here. > > I am missing to use "svn diff -c PREV", which should show the previous > commit without the changes to the current working copy. > > Regards > Till
I see one problem with this approach. The PREV revision might not be related to the path your working copy came from. Especially if you have multiple projects sharing a repository, -c PREV will often result in an empty diff for the given working copy. -c COMMITTED would always generate a diff, but PREV is just COMMITTED-1 so it might not always be what you are looking for. You're really looking for something that shows the most recent *operative* revision for the working copy older than COMMITTED. But this isn't currently available as a keyword. Regardless, note that with a 1.7 svn client you can use this workaround to run the equivalent of diff -c PREV: svn log -r PREV --diff --limit 1 (see http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html)
