On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:43:11PM +0200, Dmitry Pavlenko wrote:
> Helllo Stefan.
>
> Thanks for trying to solve this problem.
> Unfortunately you patch doesn't solve the problem because of 2 reasons.
> 1. It doesn't change "target" (in diff request), and it still may contain '/'.
> 2. If in my example (just replace http://localhost/svn == file:///tmp/test)
> diff fails if I compare r2
> and r4.
>
> $ svn diff file:///tmp/test/directory/subdirectory@2
> file:///tmp/test/directory/subdirectory@4
> svn: E125007: Path 'subdirectory/file1' must be an immediate child of the
> directory
> 'directory/subdirectory'
Thanks for catching those problems. I'll look into them.
>
> Though I can confirm that for r1-r4 comparison the output is ok with your
> patch.
>
> Actually I didn't expect involving "relative_to_dir" feature because
> currently svn client doesn't
> set this parameter anywhere. And I don't think it's a good idea to to use it
> now. As I wrote I think
> a better approach is to eliminate that do{}while(); cycle and to do something
> like (though it may
> require some significant efforts)
>
> if (any or urls to compare doesn't exist in peg revision) {
> generate full addition/deletion diff using a special report
> //or alternative throw an exception like svn 1.6 does
I don't want a solution that requires a server upgrade.
This is a user-interface problem. The client/server interaction
is capable of producing the required information. We just have to
display the information in a better way. Ideally we should come up with
a simple fix that can be merged to 1.7.x.
