On 25.06.2013, at 20:08, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Tobias Bading] >> Seriously though, what would you have to do if you have the path of a >> FILE in the working copy and a revision number N and you would like >> to know what was changed in that file in that revision? > > Something like this: > > $ LC_ALL=C svn log -v -l1 new_foo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r6 | peters | 2013-06-25 13:05:16 -0500 (Tue, 25 Jun 2013) | 1 line > Changed paths: > A /new_foo (from /foo:1) > > Copied and modified foo@1 to new_foo. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Parse the "A" line, then use that information to construct a diff > command line. Either of the following will work: > > svn diff -r1:6 new_foo > svn diff ^/foo@1 ^/new_foo@6 > > Peter
I think I can already hear Emacs developers of both VC camps, the Bazaar'ians and the Git'ians, laughing together in harmony in the distance... ;-) No disrespect & thank you for the hint, but shouldn't a version control system be able to answer the question "what's changed?" without making you jump through hoops? Tobias
