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Asked: 2026-05-19T12:17:04+00:00

I’m having some troubles with SVN changelists and svn diff . Particularly I want

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I’m having some troubles with SVN changelists and svn diff. Particularly I want to obtain the change history of a certain list of files for a specified range of revisions.
SVN changelists seem like the perfect solution, so my approach was:

  • svn changelist LIST a.txt b.txt d.txt ...
  • svn diff --changelist LIST --revision 2:3

Unfortunately, this includes all files, even those not on the changelist. Using the same syntax without --revision works perfectly well.

I suspect that changelists are designed for the working copy only and aren’t considered for history stuff at all. If so, what would the simplest alternative?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to the SVN book chapter on changelists:

    The –changelist option acts only as a
    filter for Subversion command targets,
    and will not add targets to an
    operation

    If you substitute the --changelist option for the actual list of files, say a.txt b.txt d.txt ... you get the desired output. I guess the behaviour of the command is to use current working copy directory as the target and then it is simply unable to apply the filter for the changelist.

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