Find difference between trunk and branch?

Question

Is there a way to find the differences between the trunk and say a branch 0.4.x?

I need to create a tag - however I can't remember if my latest corrections were done in the trunk or the branch.

Answer 1

If you have a checkout of the repository at hand, you can use the ^ (caret, search for it in the manual) notation to reference the root of the repo like this:

svn diff --old ^/branches/0.4.x --new ^/trunk 

This works since Subversion 1.6.

If you have an older subversion or no handy checkout of the repo, you can use absolute paths, as described in the original redbook:

svn diff --old http://.../repo/branches/0.4.x --new http://.../repo/trunk/ 

should give you the answer you're looking for.

Replace http://.../repo/ with the actual URL of your repository.

Answer 2

svn diff ^/trunkUrl/fileName ^/branchUrl/fileName 

This will give you the difference between a file in branch and trunk.