Re: Getting complete revision history with the current DB model

Harald Wellmann <Harald.Wellmann@gmx.de> writes:

> You get the predecessor of each node revision and the children of each
> directory node at constant cost, but to dump the complete history of a
> node, you have to find the successor revisions and then the parent
> directory to map your node to a path name.

Alas, you are correct. Subversion cannot (yet) track a node's history
in a forward direction, other than by brute force searching. The copy
data allows you to track backwards, a la 'svn log'. So for now, you
won't find any pretty Clearcase-like node diagrams coming out of
Subversion.

> Am I missing something obvious?

No.

> If not, are there any plans to extend the DB model?

Yes.

> Or should we wait for an SQL DB backend and then get all sorts of
> queries nearly for free?

Yes. :-)

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Received on Wed Mar 12 17:47:43 2003