Tortoise SVN diff between revisions with different structure

Question

I have code in subversion. Recently the way the code is structured was changed from this:

root/source-here

to:

root/folder 1/source-here
root/folder 2/other stuff

I went ahead and made a diff using Tortoise SVN but I didn't get what I expected. Basically all files (modified and new) are shown as added and all folders of original structure as deleted.

I say not expected but I'm not implying that its an error. I was expecting to see modified and added files.

Any idea on how to do this from the repository itself?

I think I can checkout both revs and compare locally with something like WinMerge but there should be a better way. I don't think this is an unique scenario.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Perhaps what you want is this?

svn diff {banch1}/root/source-here {branch2}/root/folder1/source-here

Answer 2

Assuming rev 10 was when you did the move, you should be able to get the diffs like this:

svn diff http://server/svn/root/source-here@9 http://server/svn/root/folder1/source-here@10