[SVN-2333] 'svn diff URL1 URL2' not reverse of 'svn diff URL2 URL1'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.x
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: libsvn_delta
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karl Fogel
• Created: 13/Jun/05 23:00
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:30
• Resolved: 29/Dec/12 22:34

Description

In http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=101324, Wesley
J. Landaker forwarded a bug from the Debian bug tracker:

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310051

The problem looks serious.  Here is the core of the report:

   svn diff's output is incomplete, it ignores the deletion of
   directories.  Check these two commands, they only differ in
   the order of arguments.

      ametzler@costa:~$ svn diff                          \
        svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/tags/4.50-4   \
        svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk         \
        | wc 2>/dev/null
         6519   40286  293933

      ametzler@costa:~$ svn diff                          \
        svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk         \
        svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-exim4/exim/tags/4.50-4   \
        | wc 2>/dev/null
        10687   58798  452521

   Redirecting the outputs to files and comparing their contents
   with lsdiff [1] shows that the former command does not show
   the information about deletion of the debian/exim4-config-medium
   and debian/exim4-config-simple directory trees.

Uh, yeah, I'd say that's a problem :-).

Issue Links

• blocks: SVN-2524 svn diff does not include deleted directories
• is depended upon by: SVN-2524 svn diff does not include deleted directories