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Re: Bug? 'svn log' doesn't follow file-moves

From: Zack Brown <zbrown_at_tumblerings.org>
Date: 2002-11-03 22:44:35 CET

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:39:45AM -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I do an 'svn log COMMITTERS', I notice that the very bottom entry
> > shows COMMITTERS being renamed from AUTHORS.
> >
> > Is that a bug? I'd expect the log subcommand to follow file-moves.
>
> `svn log` (without --strict) does follow file moves. However:
>
> rev 347: kfogel | 2001-10-29 16:20:47 -0600 (Mon, 29 Oct 2001) | 5 lines
> Changed paths:
> D /trunk/AUTHORS
> A /trunk/COMMITTERS
>
> the absence of "(copied from ...)" on the COMMITTERS line above means
> that the filesystem didn't log this operation as a true copy -- just
> as an add and a delete.

Is that possibly because the tree was patched by one of Subversion's unified
diffs instead of a direct commit? i.e. is there any way for someone without
direct commit access to a tree, to submit a patch to properly rename a file?

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