Inconsistency in blame

Hi All,

I recently discovered what appears to be a bug.

When I blame a file that was added to a branch (say branch A) via a
merge (from, say branch B), the revisions column is populated with the
blame of the original file (as it is in branch B).

I would expect it to be populated with the revision in which it was
merged to branch A.

blame -g in turn shows me the merge history of the original file (from
branch B).

Here's a working example:

svn log
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/cache-membuffer.c

This file was added to trunk only in r1067669 via a merge from
branches/performance

However, a "blame" shows me revisions that are older than this (same as
blame of the file in branches/performance), and not the revision in
which the file was added.

A "blame -g" shows me the merge history of the file in branches/performance.

This has been the case since 1.4.x. (That's as far back as I have tested
it.)

Should this be documented somewhere/ should the behavior be changed to
be uniform for both newly added files and modified files?

Regards,
Arwin Arni
Received on 2011-02-07 14:08:41 CET