PhilGoetz comments on Tool ideology - Less Wrong

25 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 September 2011 10:37PM

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Comment author: pengvado 10 September 2011 02:00:28AM *  26 points [-]

You can never see what changes other people have made since your last commit, because to get the changes, you have to do an update

svn diff -rBASE:HEAD to see the changes since your last update.
svn diff -rHEAD to diff your working tree against the repository.
Which does send the diffs over the web, and is inconveniently slow.

(I'm not a svn user. I just agreed with the initial reaction of "that's ridiculous", and followed it up with "I bet there really is a way to do that" and looked at the manpage.)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 September 2011 03:17:28PM 5 points [-]

Wow, it is right there in svn help diff! I'm going to try this first thing Monday.

Comment author: arundelo 10 September 2011 07:47:56PM *  4 points [-]

You might also enjoy svn status's --show-updates switch, which shows what files would be updated if you ran svn update.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 September 2011 03:37:40PM 0 points [-]

It works!

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