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

Question

I have tried.

My working copy is based on but a modified version of

svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/yyy

I want to diff against branch xxx. I have tried

svn diff --old=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/xxx --new=. 

but that only seems like shorthand for

svn diff --old=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/xxx --new=svn://foo.net/svn/repo/branch/yyy

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

You can also compare between two urls : it's faster because you don't have to checkout the other branch.

svn info # grap url
svn diff localUrl distantUrl