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Gavin "Beau" Baumanis
On 07/02/2011, at 8:54 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Hi, back with another svn question regardling branches. Beat my head against
> this wall for a while and figured someone here would know.
>
> I've been trying to go about doing branch imports a somewhat strange, to svn
> it appears, way. I run a checkout like so:
>
> svn co -r1 file:////ssd1/lm/tcl-subset.svn/branches/core-8-0-5-branch ws
>
> and then I attempt to get the list of revs that touch this branch like so:
>
> svn log -r1:HEAD file:////ssd1/lm/tcl-subset.svn/branches/core-8-0-5-branch
>
> and then I attempt update to each of those revs in the branch like so:
>
> for rev in list_of_revs
> do svn update -r$rev
> done
>
> which gets me what I want for the subset of revs that existed before the branch
> creation, but not for the revs that are unique to the branch, I get the wrong
> data, I believe from some other branch (maybe the trunk)?
>
> So am I just trying to use svn wrong? Did I go wrong with the log, is that
> not giving revs that touch that branch?
>
> Thanks, yours in svn-not-groking-it-land,
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
Received on 2011-02-06 23:09:09 CET