Neels J. Hofmeyr wrote:
> So, no replies on this? I think it deserves some attention because it
> affects `svn log' usability of moved files...
>
> ~Neels
>
> Neels J. Hofmeyr wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> there are plenty of posts about log on moved files, but I don't see this
>> particular case complained about anywhere:
>>
>> I have a file that was some time ago `svn move'd to my current directory.
>> `blame' tells me that some line is from revision N. I run `svn log -r N' but
>> get an empty log message!?
>>
>> I then cd to my working copy root, run the same log command and voilà,
>> there's the log message. Here's a transcript using a working copy of trunk,
>> and also using the svn client compiled from trunk:
>>
>> [[[
>> At revision 33739.
>>
>> neels_at_dub:/arch/elego/svn/trunk
>> $ cd subversion/tests/cmdline/
>>
>> neels_at_dub:/arch/elego/svn/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline
>> $ svn blame tree_conflict_tests.txt
>> [...]
>> 31016 sbutler ==============
>> 31016 sbutler Current Status
>> 31016 sbutler ==============
>> [...]
>>
>> neels_at_dub:/arch/elego/svn/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline
>> $ svn log -r 31016
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Log is empty!? But the file is right here!"
You're doing an apples to oranges comparison. You run 'svn blame' on a
particular file, and that particular file tells you some revisions of
interest. But then you run 'svn log' *not* on that same file, but on its
current parent directory. Your current directory wasn't modified in r31016.
You should have run 'svn log -r 31016 tree_conflicts_tests.txt'.
The reason you see the log when you back up to the root is because the root
directory *was* modified by r31016 by the bubble-up addition of the file
which originally lived in /trunk/notes, but was later moved into the
tests/cmdline/ directory.
I can see how this can cause confusion, but welcome to versioned
directories. :-)
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Received on 2008-10-23 15:47:14 CEST