Question about diff output (diff in subdir)

Vincent LADEUIL v.ladeuil at alplog.fr
Wed Feb 1 14:35:03 GMT 2006


>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:

    Alexander> When I do bzr diff in subdir I've got output with
    Alexander> filenames relative to branch root. Is this good?

    Alexander> If I have following use case: some editor
    Alexander> (e.g. FTE) has built-in support for bzr commands
    Alexander> by invoking bzr from command line and catching its
    Alexander> output. This editor is able to parse output of
    Alexander> diff command and provide click-n-jump feature,
    Alexander> when I from diff could jump to appropriate
    Alexander> location in file. But unfortunately this editor
    Alexander> don't know anything about bzr root dir and the
    Alexander> fact that all path is relative to that root.  So
    Alexander> when I run bzr diff from subdir I have broken
    Alexander> paths in output. And editor could not jump to
    Alexander> appropriate file from diff because path is broken.

Can't you correct that by an adequate use of the 'bzr root' command ?

At  least by  using  'bzr root'  +  'bzr diff'  you  are sure  to
interpret things without ambiguities.

Otherwise you will need 'pwd' + 'bzr diff'...

      Vincent




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