Re: Diff between Branches

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:36:57PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> I'm novice with Bazaar.
> I would like to diff between gettext branch and trunk. I did:
> 
> bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/robertmh/gettext/
> cd gettext
> bzr diff -r branch:http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/ub/trunk/grub
> 
> But I have some unexpected results like adding files and removing files
> that I would not expect: 
> 
> === added file 'AUTHORS'
> --- AUTHORS     1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
> +++ AUTHORS     2009-10-31 12:19:08 +0000
> 
> and then:
> === removed file 'AUTHORS'
> --- AUTHORS     2005-09-03 16:54:27 +0000
> +++ AUTHORS     1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000

This usually means that there is a problem with the way the branches
were created or with the way they've been managed, such that the files
in each branch do not have common ancestry. (Bazaar assigns each file a
unique file-id in order to support good rename tracking, and will only
consider two files to be different versions of the same file if they
have the same file-id; you can see the file-id with e.g. 'bzr ls
--show-ids'.)

I haven't looked at these two branches to find out exactly what's
happened.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]