Timeline

Repo.Diff has a multi-file return shape ([]DiffEntry) but previously rejected filePath == "" with "filePath is required". Consumers that wanted a whole- checkin diff (the equivalent of `git diff revA..revB` or `fossil diff --from revA --to revB`) had to enumerate changed files themselves and call Diff per file; EdgeSync's Agent.Diff is the in-tree example of that workaround.

This relaxes the guard: when filePath == "", Diff now returns one DiffEntry per file that changed between ridA and ridB, sorted by Name for deterministic ordering. The non-empty filePath path is unchanged. Identical checkins return ([]DiffEntry{}, nil).

Whole-checkin enumeration is name-keyed (union of files across both manifests where the content UUID differs or the file exists on only one side). Proper rename detection via mlink (so a pure rename produces a single entry rather than an add+delete pair) and permission-only change reporting are deferred to a follow-up; the limitation is documented on Diff's godoc and called out in the PR description. The single-file path is unaffected.

The previous TestDiff_EmptyFilePath (which asserted the rejection error) is replaced with positive coverage for identical checkins, single-file change, multi-file change, addition-only, and deletion-only.

closes #24 check-in: 764a82ecdb user: [email protected] tags: trunk, v0.5.0