Diff does not contain info about type

[bystrzak]

Before reworking diff in e14cecc information about the type of the element diff referred to was provided, e.g. D for directories. It makes it difficult to detect when a tracked element was added or removed.

[dsoprea]

I'm assuming that you're referring to the "kind" information. The information shouldn't be fundamentally different from before, though slightly differently structured. The svn-diff only provides the kind information when called with "--summary":

$ svn diff -r 1:2 --summarize --xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<diff>
<paths>
<path
   item="added"
   props="none"
   kind="file">testdir2/testfile2</path>
<path
   item="added"
   props="none"
   kind="dir">testdir2</path>
</paths>
</diff>

This information was, and is still, available from the diff_summary() call. It isn't available in the normal diff() call because this information isn't provided in the normal diff output:

$ svn diff -r 1:2
Index: testdir2/testfile2
===================================================================
--- testdir2/testfile2	(nonexistent)
+++ testdir2/testfile2	(revision 2)
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+14095d20-5b1e-11ea-8d8b-e7d6ce2448de

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