Question

I have tried.

My working copy is based on but a modified version of

svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/yyy

I want to diff against branch xxx. I have tried

svn diff --old=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/xxx --new=. 

but that only seems like shorthand for

svn diff --old=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/xxx --new=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/yyy

Answer 1

Seems that subversion doesn’t allow to compare working copy with url. Both –old and –new need to be either WC or URL.

I think there’s a workaround though – you may checkout your xxx branch and then compare 2 working copies.

svn checkout svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/xxx xxx_branch

svn diff xxx_branch yyy_modified_wc

diff -u xxx_branch yyy_modified_wc

Edit As Pavel noticed svn diff in this form doesn’t compare xxx and yyy – it just shows local modifications of xxx and yyy. svn diff --old=xxx --new=yyy seems not allowed (at least in svn client 1.6.17). To compare xxx and yyy diff command is needed. Pavel, 10x for the notice