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

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:00:09PM -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
> > > `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?
>
> Possibly. Though, in this case, I think it was because we hadn't yet
> implemented the 'move' command. :-)

Yup. We didn't get the move command until November or December, as I recall.

Until that point, everything was delete-then-add. We also avoided as much of
that as possible, waiting for when we had true copies and moves.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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