subversion: How to: difference between modified working copy and alternate branch?
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