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Re: What I really want is to be able to "svn log" back to the beginning of repo time

From: Hari Kodungallur <hkodungallur_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:25:13 -0700

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <
subversion-2008a_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

>
> I am afraid this is not the best way to create the branches. 'svn switch'
> > will completely switch (move) your branch to a new location in the
> > repository. And when you do this (a) it will remove your old branch and (b)
> > it will leave no trace of history for the new branch.
> >
>
> What? No... "svn switch" does nothing to your repository. It just changes
> your working copy so that it's attached to a different part of the
> repository. It doesn't remove anything from the repository, or change the
> repository in any way.

Oops.. my bad. Please disregard this portion of what I said. I am not even
sure what I was thinking. It is not like this something I did not know..
Weird.

Thanks,
-Hari
Received on 2008-04-04 02:25:36 CEST

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