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RE: Answering "in which revision was this branch created?"

From: Bert Huijben <rhuijben_at_sharpsvn.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:08:17 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com]
> Sent: maandag 2 november 2009 18:21
> To: Bert Huijben
> Cc: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Answering "in which revision was this branch created?"
>
> Bert Huijben wrote:
> > svn log --stop-on-copy -r 1:HEAD --limit 1 -q URL
> >
> > Gives the answer directly.
>
> Wow.
>
> /me tries it.
>
> Wow.
>
> It really does. Who'd have thought it? What a weird user interface.

I agree that its weird, but in some cases it is very useful that 'svn log'
can reverse its answers.

But 1:HEAD to retrieve just the portion of the history after the copy is
just weird^2.

        Bert

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