Richard Henderson - Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline? (original) (raw)

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• From: Richard Henderson
• To: Daniel Berlin
• Cc: Mike Stump , Joern RENNECKE , gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
• Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:08:59 -0800
• Subject: Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline?
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:

Of course, the question always raised when you try to do this is "why is this better than just using shell variables"

if you can give me a good answer to take back to dev@subversion, i'm happy to

If we had something to expand to "Repository Root", then you would have a mechanism that would automatically work in whatever repository you're currently working in. Something that can't be said about shell variables.

Even better if we can choose something that isn't already a shell meta character, and so needs no quoting itself.

What if we let "^[+]" substitute Repository Root? We'd get

svn diff +/trunk/gcc/foo.c foo.c

I'm undecided if automatically appending a / to the expansion is helpful. It probably is, since essentially all uses need it.

r~

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    * From: Joern RENNECKE
  • Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline?
    * From: Mike Stump
  • Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline?
    * From: Daniel Berlin
  • Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline?
    * From: Daniel Berlin