Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, 22 Dec 2019 07:26 +00:00:
> On 22.12.2019 04:55, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > wuzhouhui wrote on Sun, 22 Dec 2019 03:29 +00:00:
> >> When I use
> >>
> >>     svn log -q --diff
> >>
> >> to display only different of every revision, the svn report error:
> >>
> >>     svn: E205000: Try 'svn help log' for more information
> >>     svn: E205000: 'quiet' and 'diff' options are mutually exclusive
> >>
> >> I just don't understand why option --diff and -q are mutually exclusive?
> >> Can we remove this limitation?
> > I don't see any reason for this restriction either, and the combination
> > does seem to work, once the check is removed.  Why should this
> > restriction be kept?
> 
> I don't think there's any good reason, except perhaps for considerations
> about documenting the behaviour. 'svn log -q -v' works ... by the
> principle of least surprise, 'svn log -q --diff' should work, too.
> 
> At a glance, the help message doesn't need changing, either.

Done in r1871916.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers,

Daniel

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