Hi Hartmut Thank you for the quick reply a followup question: if you choose update to revision, does this mean that you can write any revision number and the result will then be the closest earlier revision? i.e. in my example, if I ask for version 71715 it will update to version 70807?
Best regards Martin onsdag den 3. juli 2019 kl. 10.50.59 UTC+2 skrev H. Niemann: > > Hi Martin, > > > > AFAIK this is by design. > > A version is always a **repository** version, so if a file has been > changed in revision x and y (with y>x), > > all revisions z with x < z < y are identical with version x, these > revisions had been created because some other file changed. > > So comparing version y with the previous version means both: > > 1. compare it with y-1 > 2. compare it with x > > because versions x and y-1 are the same thing for **this** file. > > > > I would guess that the diff routine diffing version y with the previous > version doesn't care what version (x) that file changed last > > and simply requests y-1 from the server, and displays it this way, which > might be misleading if a user is new to the version number scheme SVN uses, > > but which is correct. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Dr. Hartmut Niemann > > > *Von:* Martin Nielsen via TortoiseSVN < > tortoisesvn+apn2wqfncsiswffpoelblj_tl5trrrqdrt1twlvtx54ee3gvm...@googlegroups.com > > <javascript:>> > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2019 10:00 > *An:* TortoiseSVN <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Betreff:* Compare with previous version shows wrong version number > > > > > steps to reproduce issue: > > 1. select a file and show log > > 2. select a version and choose compare with previous version > > in the TortoiseMerge the files are showing side by side, but the previous > version is number one less than the selected version, instead of the > correct version number, e.g. I want to compare version 71716 with previous > version, which according to the log is 70807, but it shows as 71715 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TortoiseSVN" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/342243af-c054-47fa-aa7d-a15dfed3d65f%40googlegroups.com > > <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Ftortoisesvn%2F342243af-c054-47fa-aa7d-a15dfed3d65f%2540googlegroups.com%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dfooter&data=02%7C01%7Chartmut.niemann%40siemens.com%7Cfe800318802b45e35f9708d6ff8c8612%7C38ae3bcd95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C1%7C636977376343405477&sdata=J71v21JvFzwHXxkx6C8vHwLaFVym8%2FQQ3mPUinOYC9Y%3D&reserved=0> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Foptout&data=02%7C01%7Chartmut.niemann%40siemens.com%7Cfe800318802b45e35f9708d6ff8c8612%7C38ae3bcd95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C1%7C636977376343415468&sdata=ZztI8Z0rpzjZZnsdt2Tn1Q8MNZiGgMQiV6HkA%2Bbk%2F0I%3D&reserved=0> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/c7955668-cdde-4921-9721-786cb55dc9fc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
