On Monday 07 February 2011 06:37 PM, Arwin Arni wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently discovered what appears to be a bug.
>
> When I blame a file that was added to a branch (say branch A) via a
> merge (from, say branch B), the revisions column is populated with the
> blame of the original file (as it is in branch B).
>
> I would expect it to be populated with the revision in which it was
> merged to branch A.
>
> blame -g in turn shows me the merge history of the original file (from
> branch B).
>
>
>
> Here's a working example:
>
> svn log
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/cache-membuffer.c
>
>
> This file was added to trunk only in r1067669 via a merge from
> branches/performance
>
> However, a "blame" shows me revisions that are older than this (same
> as blame of the file in branches/performance), and not the revision in
> which the file was added.
>
> A "blame -g" shows me the merge history of the file in
> branches/performance.
>
Sorry, the file was merged from branches/integrate-cache-membuffer
> This has been the case since 1.4.x. (That's as far back as I have
> tested it.)
>
> Should this be documented somewhere/ should the behavior be changed to
> be uniform for both newly added files and modified files?
>
>
> Regards,
> Arwin Arni
Received on 2011-02-07 14:18:26 CET