On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Benjamin Fritz wrote: > I'm referring to files with an 'R' status in 'svn log'. > > I want to see the changes between the new file, and the file that it replaced.
'svn diff' does that by default. You have to use the --notice-ancestry option to force svn not to show a diff between post-replaced and pre-replaced. So I wonder why you aren't seeing the expected behaviour. Maybe your Subversion client (Tortoise) sets the notice-ancestry flag by default? $ svn cat alpha alpha $ svn rm alpha D alpha $ echo foo > alpha $ svn add alpha A alpha $ svn st alpha R alpha $ svn diff alpha Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 2) +++ alpha (working copy) @@ -1 +1 @@ -alpha +foo $ svn diff --notice-ancestry alpha Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 0) +++ alpha (working copy) @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -alpha Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 0) +++ alpha (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +foo $ svn commit -mm Replacing alpha Transmitting file data . Committed revision 3. $ svn log -v -r3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r3 | stsp | 2013-09-10 17:08:14 +0200 (Tue, 10 Sep 2013) | 1 line Changed paths: R /trunk/alpha m ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ svn diff -c3 ^/trunk Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 2) +++ alpha (revision 3) @@ -1 +1 @@ -alpha +foo $ svn diff -c3 --notice-ancestry ^/trunk Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 2) +++ alpha (revision 3) @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -alpha Index: alpha =================================================================== --- alpha (revision 0) +++ alpha (revision 3) @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +foo