Subversion's Diff to Head broken

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 03.05.07 02:14:21, dukju ahn wrote:
> 2007/5/3, dukju ahn <dukjuahn at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> And still we have more than 10 days before releasing. The changes are
> not that big.

That doesn't matter, these rules exist for a reason. As Matt already
said: First ask the translators for clarification and if they don't want
it revert the changes and please make Diff To Head diff working to head
not base to head.

Andreas

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