On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:39:32PM -0800, Alexey Neyman wrote: > What adds oil to the fire is that the error message, which claims that > "Target > lists to diff may not contain both working copy paths and URL". If instead it > said that the supplied syntax is ambiguous and suggested to use --new/--old > for disambiguation, this would have saved a lot of frustration and would > eliminate the need of "svn compare" subcommand :) > > For example: > svn: Ambiguous target list (contains both work copy paths and URLs). Use > --old/--new syntax to disambiguate.
Agreed. The error message wasn't very helpful. I've improved it in http://svn.apache.org/r1442645 based on your suggestion. Thanks!