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Re: Revision range in log dialog

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:01:36 +0100

Oddvar Kloster wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Küng
>> [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com] Sent: 4. februar 2009 17:32 To:
>> dev_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org Subject: Re: Revision range in log
>> dialog
>>
>> Oddvar Kloster wrote:
>>> I'm a bit mystified by some behaviour of the log dialog.
>>>
>>> If I open the log for a folder, select revision 123 and then
>>> click 'show log' for one of the files modified in that revision,
>>>
>> I get a log
>>> dialog for the file. This dialog does not show revisions after
>>> 123.
>>>
>>> Minor point 1. I'm not entirely sure that it's best to show the
>>> log only up to revision 123 -- my thoughts were 'ok, this file
>>> was modified here, let's see what other revisions we've modified
>>> it in'. However, this may just be my preference.
>> If you use the log dialog and start another log dialog from that,
>> it's usually because you *want* to show the log for a specific
>> revision - maybe the file/folder doesn't even exist anymore in
>> HEAD. So we can not show the full log because we would get an error
>> if the file/folder doesn't exist anymore in HEAD.
>>
>
> Yes, the file is defined by a name and peg revision and does not
> necessarily exist in HEAD. But if I want to see its entire history, I
> can achieve that by Refresh or Show Range to HEAD. So why not show
> revisions up to HEAD (or until the file is deleted) from the
> beginning?

Done in r15267.

Stefan

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