[svk-devel] svk push produces non-optimal diffs in patches

[Chia-Liang Kao]

Hi Sam,

On 12/03/07, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:
> svk cp //remote/trunk //local-branch #I'm not very creative with my branch names
> # make some changes and commit
> svk push -P patch_name //local-branch
>
> If I set the smerge base to when //local-branch was last created
> rather than 0 then it may produce a smaller patch.  There may be other
> factors required to create the situation.  At this point I'm not at
> liberty to discuss specific details, although I will be able to do so
> later.  Also, I don't have a lot of time to try and reproduce.

So is it just the log in the patch being huge?  The diff is correct I presume?

Cheers,
CLK