[Mediawiki-l] Question about SVN

[Ross McKay]

The Gadget Doctor wrote:

>[...]
>I know that I can update to the latest version with the (scarily brief and
>powerful "svn up") but I'm looking for something that will tell me exactly
>what files will change before I issue that command. 

To see which files have been updated in the repository and will be
pulled by next update:

svn stat -u

To see what has changed in each file:

svn diff -r head filename

To get a nice graphical diff (on Linux with Meld installed), so that you
can easily see the difference or even pull in some changes selectively:

svn diff --diff-cmd meld -r head filename

>I would also like to be
>able to see what would happen if I gave the command "svn sw" and switched to
>another branch.

Run a merge but specify a dry-run so that nothing is actually pulled
down:

svn merge --dry-run /path/to/branch1 /path/to/branch2
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Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
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