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Re: Adding changeset-like functionality to subversion

From: Noel Yap <yap_noel_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2002-10-09 15:15:08 CEST

--- Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> wrote:
> > The reason one may want to retrieve easily the
> > previous revision is to be able to create easily a
> > change set (eg just diff the current revision
> against
> > the previous one on the same branch).
>
> Um, you don't need to find back the last change in
> that branch. You
> can just diff with -r N:N-1. The branch was the same
> just before the
> change.

From what I understand, this isn't necessarily true
since a checkin may occur on another branch thereby
making N-1 not the predecessor revision to N.

> But as a direct answer to your question - svn info
> can give the last
> revision a certain file was changed at - but it
> works only for the
> current working copy. So you would have to update to
> revision N-1 for
> a file to see when it last changed before that.

I was thinking such functionality would also be
important in order to implement a rudimentary "svn
blame", too. Karl has hinted that such functionality
already exists.

Noel

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