Bug#343142: subversion: svn diff won't work with a date

Max Bowsher maxb1 at ukf.net
Tue Dec 13 13:32:45 UTC 2005


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Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> The subversion book says subversion accepts  
> --revision {2002-02-17} 
> --revision {"2002-02-17 15:30"} 
> etc.
> (see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-3-sect-3.3 )

This is correct. The problem is simply not using a date format that
Subversion understands.

> Note that diff needs a range of revisions, eg -r {2005-12-10}:{2005-12-15}.
> If you use -r {2005-12-10}, subversion will implicitly add an end revision.

This isn't entirely correct. If you specify a single revision,
Subversion will diff against the working copy files, which, I believe,
is the same as CVS's behaviour.

Max.

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