Diffing a remote subversion branch timesout on fetching changes

[ChrisCauser]

When I have a checkout/branch of a subversion branch, for example trunk, when I issue the commands

bzr diff https://scm...../branches/dev-branch
bzr diff :parent

the system seems to endlessly download changes. The remote svn repository is 28MB, but if left, the terminal carries on downloading changes

100000kB 123kB/s - fetching changes for file ids 0/415

which then results in a memory error.

I am running
bzr: 2.4.0~bzr5863~ppa3932.3931~lucid1
bzr-svn: 1.1.0~bzr3717~ppa382~lucid1
svn: svn, version 1.6.15 (r1038135)

On the IRC, it was suggested that I mirror the two branches remotely and diff them:

bzr branch https://scm..../branches/dev
bzr branch https://scm..../trunk
bzr diff dev trunk
bzr: ERROR: Path "/home/<username>/repo/dev" is not a child of path "/home/<username>/repo/trunk"

where repo is the bzr repo I have local to the system. I understand this may be due to limitations due to working with svn but I thought I'd report it just in case anyone else has similar issues.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

FWIW, you should be able to use "bzr diff -rbranch:dev trunk" to do the diffing if you have the branches locally.

[ChrisCauser (chy-causer)]

Thanks Jelmer, but I get the error message:

bzr: ERROR: Path "/home/<username>/repo/dev" is not a child of path "/home/<username>/repo/trunk"

I've seemed to manage without this functionality up 'til now, but I'm a little curious as to why this happens.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Chris, is that with the command I in my comment or with "bzr diff dev trunk" that you mentioned above?

[ChrisCauser (chy-causer)]

Ah, yes you're absolutely right, the command you give gives the diff as wanted.

Many thanks for that Jelmer.