[TSVN] Re: Problem with svn log on tortoise svn

JOLY Loic wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I recently converted a SourceSafe database to subversion. When I try
> to
> look the log of a file from tortoiseSvn (any file, it does not seem to
> matter), I only get the most recent versions, whereas the command line
> snv log gives me the full history.
>
> For more details, I send in attachment the result of both logs on the
> same file.
>
> Is this a known bug ? Is there a workaround ?

Not a bug. In the TSVN settings dialog you can set the number of log
messages to fetch. By default this is 100. This is a bit of a misnomer
due to the way subversion (currently) works. What it actually does is to
set the number of revisions to fetch log messages for, not a number of
log messages, so fetching 100 will fetch the range (HEAD-99):HEAD. In
your case that will be 3394 - 3493, which contains only 1 useful log
message.

You can fetch _all_ log messages by clicking the 'Get All' button in the
log dialog. The reason this is not the default is obvious of you think
of a large repository (eg. subversion itself with >12000 revisions).
Fetch all could take a very long time over a dial-up connection.

In subversion 1.2 this behaviour will be improved, so you will be able
to fetch 100 log messages rather than the log messages from the previous
100 revisions.

Simon

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