Subversion's Diff to Head broken

[Matt Rogers]

On May 2, 2007, at 12:11 PM, dukju ahn wrote:

> 2007/5/3, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org>:
>>
>> On May 2, 2007, at 5:48 AM, dukju ahn wrote:
>>
>>> 2007/5/1, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
>>>> Yes, I'm doing this on kdev4 sources, change a file save it and
>>>> then use
>>>> diff to head and all I get is the message box.
>>>
>>> svn diff WORKING:HEAD was not implemented. What you did was
>>> "svn diff BASE:HEAD". So if your base copy is up-to-date, no
>>> difference
>>> is natual.
>>>
>>> Anyway I implemented svn diff WORKING:HEAD. Now the problem is  
>>> fixed.
>>> I changed menu text more explicitly.
>>
>> You will need to revert your last two commits as you changed
>> translatable strings and those changes are not allowed this late in
>> the 3.5.7 release cycle.
>
> I know, but techbase says that in case of errors in string, change  
> can be made.
> The current menu text is error.
> After all, what is diff to HEAD? Is it BASE or WORKING
> that is to be compared with HEAD? User can't know the correct  
> meaning, and
> even I am confused somtimes.
>
> It would be better to have untranslated message than make users get  
> confused.
>

Errors in strings mean things like typos, not errors in the meaning  
of the text. Techbase should probably be clarified in that regard.  
IMO, this still needs to be reverted. You should probably ask the  
translators though (email kde-i18n-doc) just to be certain.

Thanks
--
Matt