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Re: "svn mv a b; svn mv b a" breaks history?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.co.il>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:12:25 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

I reopened issue #756.

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 21:06 +0300:
> Summary: The sequence
>
> svn mv foo bar
> svn mv bar foo
> svn ci foo
>
> breaks the line of history of foo.
>
>
> To reproduce:
>
> --------------------------------
> cd wc1
>
> echo Adding file ./foo
> echo foo>foo
> svn -q add foo
> svn -q ci -m "r1: add foo"
> svn -q up
>
> echo Moving back and forth
> svn -q mv foo bar
> svn -q mv bar foo
>
> echo Commit
> svn -q ci -m "r2: mv foo bar; mv bar foo"
> svn -q up
>
> echo Log for ./foo_at_HEAD
> svn log -qv foo
>
> echo Log for ./foo_at_1
> svn log -qv foo_at_1
>
> cd ..
> --------------------------------
>
> Gives output:
>
> Log for ./foo_at_HEAD
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r2 | daniel | 2008-05-08 20:26:59 +0300 (Thu, 08 May 2008)
> Changed paths:
> R /foo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Log for ./foo_at_1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r1 | daniel | 2008-05-08 20:26:55 +0300 (Thu, 08 May 2008)
> Changed paths:
> A /foo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> '[1]lucas' on #svn-dev reports that rc5 doesn't report 'foo' as replaced
> (with/without history) before committing r2; however, I get the above
> output with 1.5.x_at_HEAD as well as with trunk.
>
>
> The output with an old build (prior to creating the 1.5.x branch) is
> better:
>
> Log for ./foo_at_HEAD
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r2 | daniel | 2008-05-08 20:56:03 +0300 (Thu, 08 May 2008)
> Changed paths:
> R /foo (from /foo:1)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r1 | daniel | 2008-05-08 20:55:59 +0300 (Thu, 08 May 2008)
> Changed paths:
> A /foo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Log for ./foo_at_1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r1 | daniel | 2008-05-08 20:55:59 +0300 (Thu, 08 May 2008)
> Changed paths:
> A /foo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Looking at libsvn_wc/copy.c:determine_copyfrom_info [1], the "svn mv a b;
> svn mv b a" scenario is special-cased:
>
> if (dst_entry && rev == dst_entry->revision &&
> strcmp(url, dst_entry->url) == 0)
> {
> /* Suppress copyfrom info when the copy source is the same as
> for the destination. */
> url = NULL;
> rev = SVN_INVALID_REVNUM;
> }
>
> Why was this check added? It seems to be breaking the line of history
> in this scenario.
>
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] 'blame' assigns the following lines to r25799, which is part of the
> fix for issue #756.
>

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