bzr diff URL doesn't work, but bzr diff /path/to/branch does

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

Usability issue.

I have "trunk" in my working tree, and I'm given a URL of someone's changes.

I tried "bzr diff . URL" but that just told me that the Path(s) were not versioned (!!)

I had to checkout the URL in a path alongside, then bzr diff . ../OTHERBRANCH and that worked.

If a path to a branch works, so should a URL.

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

Bazaar 1.1 has a greatly improved diff UI. The command you want is "bzr diff --new URL".

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Cannot find any evidence for this having been fixed?

It still fails with the current bzr version.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I'm pretty sure you want:
bzr diff --old . --new URL

Which does, indeed, work here. It seems to have been introduced in 1.1, but the open values only go back to 1.3, so I'm marking it there.

We *don't* support "bzr diff . URL" and we don't support "bzr diff branch1 branch2" anymore, because it became to confusing to get all of the DWIM behavior working.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

But you *do* support bzr diff FILE

and if you support FILE you should support URL-TO-FILE, no?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

>But you *do* support bzr diff FILE
>
>and if you support FILE you should support URL-TO-FILE, no?

bzr diff FILE does:
'bzr diff of FILE in the tree that FILE is in'

bzr diff URL-TO-FILE will work IFF the protocol is one that supports
working tree access (e.g. local paths only).

-Rob