If there's a difference, it shows that; so the lack of a message must mean there are no differences.
C:\U>svn diff --summarize svn:// X.XX.XXX.XXX/SVN_Sandbox/trunk/testdir/subdir1/testfile1.txt svn:// X.XX.XXX.XXX/SVN_Sandbox/tags/release_01/testdir/subdir1/testfile1.txt M svn:// X.XX.XXX.XXX//SVN_Sandbox/trunk/testdir/subdir1/testfile1.txt From: Ahmed, Omair (GE Oil & Gas) Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:30 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Diff syntax Hello, I want to compare (diff) two files (what's in /trunk with what's in /tags - the hope being that they are the same (no differences). When I run the command shown below, I don't get a message like "Files are same, no differences". Is that normal or is there something wrong with the syntax? C:\>svn diff --summarize svn://X.XX.XXX.XXX/SVN_Sandbox/trunk/testdir/subdir1/testfile1.txt svn:// X.XX.XXX.XXX /SVN_Sandbox/tags/release_01/testdir/subdir1/testfile1.txt C:\>