Find Out What’s Changed in a Subversion Repository
Monday, March 20th, 2006Let’s say you’re working collaboratively with someone and you’re using the Subversion source code management system.
Your buddy makes a load of changes over the weekend. You want to find out what all they added / changed / updated / etc. so you can get up to speed.
Since you know your last changes were checked in as revision #655, you can browse to your locally checked out copy and run:
svn diff -r HEAD:655 > changes.diff
HEAD is Subversion shortcut for the latest revision number. You can also use “svn diff -r 670:655″ or whatever, too.
Next, fire up your favorite graphical diff viewer with ‘changes.diff’ and you can see all the differences between the two revisions.
If you are on OS X, the excellent TextMate has a nice builtin diff viewer.
If the file extension is ‘diff’, TextMate automatically formats the output for you. Otherwise, select the Diff file type from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the editor window.
