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

Jason Dorje Short jdorje at users.sf.net
Fri Dec 30 19:07:15 UTC 2005


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 a major problem.  Not being able to use the output of `date` 
within subversion makes the date diff useless for many purposes.  And 
not being able to do `svn diff -r {yesterday}` means a very 
user-friendly feature of CVS is gone.

-jason





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