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Re: Finding out release history for a file

From: sebb <sebbaz_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-10-24 23:20:19 CEST

On 24/10/05, Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> wrote:
> sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com> wrote on 10/24/2005 12:47:46 PM:
>
> > How do I find out which release tags relate to each revision of a file?
> >
> > In the CVS revision history, it was easy to see if version 1.3 was
> > part of rel-2-1 and version 1.2 part of rel-1-9, say.
> >
> > I've not yet found a way to determine this information in SVN.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this, apart from scanning all the versions of a
> > file in all the tags and branches?
>
> This is a feature that Subversion does not have.
>
> I thought there was a Subversion FAQ that talked about this, but I cannot
> find it. Basically, what I am thinking of simply said that it is a design
> tradeoff of the "cheap copies" filesystem design.
>

Oh. That's quite a blow.

Is there any way to get round this, e.g. by adding properties to the versions?
Or perhaps by adding a comment to the logs?

S.
Received on Tue Oct 25 07:20:19 2005

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