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The diff command is used to compare different revisions of files. The default action is to compare your working files with the revisions they were based on, and report any differences that are found. If any file names are given, only those files are compared.
To find information about the history of a file or directory, use the svn log command. svn log will provide you with a record of who made changes to a file or directory, at what revision it changed, the time and date of that revision, and, if it was provided, the log message that accompanied the commit.
To get an overview of your changes, use the svn status command. You may use svn status more than any other Subversion command. If you run svn status at the top of your working copy with no arguments, it detects all file and tree changes you've made.
Examples. You can see the log messages for all the paths that changed in your working copy by running svn log from the top: $ svn log ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r20 | harry | 2003-01-17 22:56:19 -0600 (Fri, 17 Jan 2003) | 1 line Tweak.
See svn diff in the manual:
svn diff -r 8979:11390 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/fSupplierModel.php
To compare entire revisions, it's simply:
svn diff -r 8979:11390
If you want to compare the last committed state against your currently saved working files, you can use convenience keywords:
svn diff -r PREV:HEAD
(Note, without anything specified afterwards, all files in the specified revisions are compared.)
You can compare a specific file if you add the file path afterwards:
svn diff -r 8979:HEAD /path/to/my/file.php
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