log <wc> vs log <url>

Is there a rationale behind different results for running "svn log" against
a working copy verses the "equivelant" url? I've long been happily using
"svn log ." to find what changes have happened *within* the current
directory and have just twigged that instead of that, it's quite reasonably
showing the changes that happened *to* the current directory.

I was pretty sure that I'd been able to answer the question in the past so
figured that I needed to supply the --recursive option, but this isn't
accepted by the log command. After reading the output of "svn log --help" I
realised that I needed the url version of the command and now I have the
information I wanted.

Having got the information out, I'm still a little confused as to the
reasoning behind the distinction. I would have thought that each should be
as recursive as the other and that the --recursive / --non-recursive (or in
future --depth) option should make the difference.

Will add an enhancment request if people think its sensible,

Thanks,

Rob (starting to ponder whether mixed rev working copies might be part of
the issue...)

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Received on Thu Oct 16 14:01:11 2003