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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: 2092@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2092: 23.0.60; vc-svn-diff
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:42:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk586ng9i.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18825.30181.243954.921791@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:03:01 +1300")

> OK, I've looked through the archives.  I find it odd because:

> 1) I think that svn should be able to work out whether it can handle a
>    request locally (a bug in svn?).

Agreed.

> 2) If you do "C-x v =" there is no problem.

Yes, in that case OLDVERS is nil.

> 3) I can only see a problem with "C-u C-x v =" with the default values which
>    is eqivalent to 2).

Indeed.  Basically, `svn diff foo' works locally, whereas `svn diff -r
REV foo' never works locally, even if VERS is the current working
revision (in which case the result should be identical to `svn diff
foo').  It's arguably a misfeature of `svn'.

> So it looks very much like a corner case.

It is.

> Anyway I've done as you say.

Thank you.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28  6:34 bug#2092: 23.0.60; vc-svn-diff Nick Roberts
2009-02-01 22:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 11:03   ` Nick Roberts
2009-02-04 19:42     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-02-04 11:10 ` bug#2092: marked as done (23.0.60; vc-svn-diff) Emacs bug Tracking System

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