On 1/13/06, Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> wrote:
> At 1/12/2006 07:14 PM, Jody Shumaker wrote:
> >Err it stops on a copy/rename? (rename = move). It certainly doesn't
> >"break" that scenario, it's doing exactly what it said it would do. Shows
> >the log entries back till the last copy/rename.
>
> I beg to differ: since when do I ever want to display the log for a
> file...and not show the entire log? (A little background: we are 'svn
> move'-ing the file *precisely* so that we can retain its history...instead
> of a just a simple copy-and-delete maneuver.)
>
> Yes, Zach and I now know to uncheck the cryptic 'stop-on-copy/rename' that
> it will show the entire log...but for those who are not TortoiseSVN
> experts, why do we need to know to check or uncheck this stuff?
>
> In other words: what purpose does this checkbox serve? From what I can
> tell, it has a potential to cause much more harm then good.
I use it make it easier to read the history of a branch. Many times I
don't want to display the entire history, only at the start of a
branch (this is often true for my release branches, where I just want
to see what bug fixes exist in the branch and don't need to see the
entire history). As for renames & moves, they are affected because
Subversion implements renames & moves as copy/delete operations
(someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
The idea is that it mirrors the option --stop-on-copy of the log
subcommand of the command line client. My installation of TSVN keeps
this option off by default, BTW (1.2.5). Is yours on by default?
You can read more about this here:
http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/ch05s08.html
-Rit
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Received on Fri Jan 13 08:32:15 2006