Re: Problem using Tortoise Blame - getting error popups instead of expected blame report

Jonathan Ashley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Tortoise Blame is not working reliably (for me) in version 1.5.1 build 13563.
> I have a file that blames fine if I install the old 1.4.8 Tortoise, but that
> now pops up an error dialog: "Missing changed-path information for
> '\path\to\file.py<funny_character>' in revision 131075." That was when running
> blame from the repo-browser.
>
> <funny_character> is inconsistent - I just repeated this and got "Missing
> changed-path information for
> '\path\to\file.pylhehttps:\server\repo\path\to\file.py' in revision 131075"
> instead - i.e. the character was replaced by 'lhe' and a copy of the URL.
>
> I asked for blame from revision 1-HEAD, ignoring whitespace and line-endings,
> viewing output in the Tortoise viewer. 131075 is the last revision.
>
> I have a Firefox extension 'tortoisesvn_menu' that allows me to get to the
> Tortoise menu from the browser; doing the same from there gives "Missing
> changed-path information for '\path\to\file.pyord'
> https:\server\repo\path\file.py' in revision 131075".
>
> Poking around a little more, if I bring up the log of the file, select the
> HEAD revision in the top pane and run blame on the file from the lower pane,
> the blame works fine (this is a huge improvement on version 1.5.0 which gave a
> very messed-up output at this point).
>
> I can go into details on the history of the actual file if needed, but let's
> say that it's had a fair amount of copying, branching and merging. It doesn't
> have a space in the path to it now, but it did have in its ancestor revisions.
> Using a 1.4 format repository on a 1.5.0 server.

Please report this on the Subversion mailing list (users at subversion
tigris org).

Stefan

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