Re: [TSVN] tag history

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:21:22 +0200, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com>
wrote:

>> I would like to see tags and branches in the log even if I check the
>> history of a file deep inside the trunk directory.
>
> You can't get that information from the log of a file. Because that file
> was tagged implicitely with the parent folder - the file wasn't tagged
> itself. But you can use the revision graph on that file - the revision
> graph gets the log from the repository root to get that kind of
> information.

Well, you are right in that you can't get that information from the log of
a file. On the other hand, it would be still very useful to see, and it's
also possible to display it using the same method Work Bench uses.

I still would like to have this feature in TortoiseSVN. Basically if I
choose to use TortoiseSVN I would have to use the revision graph every time
where the log would be enough. In my opinion it would be possible to
generate a database which maps revision numbers to tags and branches on
request, then we could display it just like PySVN Work Bench.

As I understand generating the revision graph is slow so generating this
mapping infrequently and use this in log displays still makes sense for me.

I would like to know if others are interested in this feature, too. Also,
I don't know Subversion enough and this solution may have serious
drawbacks, so I would like to know your opinion about this.

I already know that the tag/branch name to revision number mapping
is not readily available and I also know that there are workarounds to get
this so I don't really need it either, and also this is due to the design
of
Subversion, so you don't have to tell that to me. :)

Thanks

-- 
Attila Tajti
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