Major Description
Ben Collins-Sussman asked me to file this issue. > > Second -- Eric's original bug. He ran 'svn diff' on two unrelated > > file URLs. Consistent with dir_delta, he was shown two complete diffs > > representing a delete and an add. In Chicago, we're all three in > > agreement that this should never happen. We don't care about how it's > > implemented, or whether it "makes sense" given the implementation -- > > it's just wrong output. None of us could come up with a *single* > > use-case where a user would ever want or expect this behavior, even > > if they knew svn's internals inside and out. This should be filed > > as a bug. I thought someone mentioned that we have special-case code for diffing a single file, since dir_delta() won't work on a lone file. My "first" proposal may or may not fix this problem, I'm not sure till I investigate implementations. I just wanted to point out that this bug has a life of its own, no matter how it ends up fixed.
Original issue reported by epg