Re: Getting complete revision history with the current DB model

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>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.
>
What we can do, though -- once the rename behaviour is fixed -- is
search for all isntances of a node id, then search backwards from each
and construct a tree that way. That's almost as good.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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