Error in SVN book, chapter 7: "Using external differencing tools"
C. Michael Pilato
cmpilato at red-bean.com
Mon Jun 5 14:30:58 CDT 2006
Santeri Paavolainen wrote:
> From
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externaldifftools.html:
>
> "Finally, Subversion expects that your program return an errorcode of 0
> if your program detected differences, or 1 if it did not-- any other
> errorcode is considered a fatal error. [41]"
>
> Yet the footnote [41] and examples show exactly the opposite returnin an
> errorcode of 0 when *no* differences were detected and 1 when
> differences were detected.
>
> This is from the nightly build version.
>
> Suggested phrasing:
>
> "Finally, Subversion expects that your program return an errorcode of 0
> if your program did not detect any differences, or 1 if it did --any
> other errorcode is considered a fatal error."
Oops. Yep, you're right. Fixed in r2215. Thanks!
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has
been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton
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