On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, wait a minute. Are you suggesting removing the (existing) > diff-copy-from option from 'svnlook diff'? Why? What's wrong with it? > It provides very useful functionality. I definitely use it for > post-commit mails, because it makes them much more focused on the > interesting diff portion. It's very clear in what it does, and it does > it well :-).
No, I didn't realize that it already existed, thought you were proposing to add it. > I see no inconsistency here. 'svnlook diff' simply has an option (a > very good one IMHO) that 'svn diff' doesn't have. And that option > happens to solve the issue at hand (albeit only for svnlook right now, > not for svn). Yeah, in that case we ought to just add the option --diff-copy-from to svn. --git should imply the --diff-copy-from option, since we should represent the copies as extended headers.
