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Re: diffing directories with merged-as-deleted files?
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:13 -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:03 -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> > On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Joern RENNECKE wrote:
> > > bash-2.05b$ svn diff --old svn+ssh://amylaar@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/
> > > trunk/gcc --new gcc
> >
> > > /usr/bin/diff -up -F'^(' -u -L gcc/.cvsignore (.../svn+ssh://
> > > amylaar@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/gcc) (revision 0) -L
> > > gcc/.cvsignore (.../gcc) (revision 106387) gcc/.svn/empty-
> > > file gcc/.cvsignore
> > > /usr/bin/diff: gcc/.cvsignore: No such file or directory
> > > svn: '/home/afra/users/renneckej/bin/gccdiff' returned 2
> >
> > Sounds like a bug in subversions. cvs substituted /dev/null as I
> > recall.
>
> Actually, it's not a bug at all.
> Or at least, i can't reproduce it at all
You'll also notice, BTW, that it substituted in gcc/.svn/empty-file for
the empty file, which is what it is supposed to do (in 1.4, we remoed
the empty file and just use /dev/null)