Well, maybe I am not so correct, but it depends on the point of view:
what Lars wants to preserve. Which log events are more important: the
ones in the trunk (since the time the development branch was created),
or the ones in the branch.
If you do a merge, you preserve the events in the trunk, but the merge
itself is a single commit.
If you do renames (my recipe), the events of the trunk are lost, but
full history of the development branch is preserved.
There is no simple way to preserve both. Well, if you want both
histories, you may walk through the development branch history and
merge changes from some successive pairs of revisions separately.
Maybe some scripting may simplify the task.
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
17 ÉÀÎÑ 2008 Ç. 20:58 ÐÏÌØÚÏ×ÁÔÅÌØ Alexey <a.n.vinogradov_at_gmail.com> ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ:
> Why not? If you suggest to just rename the brunch - then the log will
> also be valid - since there were no copying at all. It was the history
> of the branch - i.e. "when it was called /branches/YYY, many things
> happens. And then it was renamed and became /trunk".
>
> I.e., this is actually no way to copy the log history. But on simple
> renaming no copy at all is made.
>
> On 17 ÉÀÎ, 22:32, "Konstantin Kolinko" <knst.koli..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> In such simple case my recipe would be not to bother with merging,
>> but just to rename /trunk to /branches/oldversion and rename or copy
>> the new branch as /trunk.
>>
>> > will I also transfer the log of commits (..)?
>>
>> No, you won't. Merging just transfers your changes to your working copy,
>> and then you do a single commit. The "show log" will display only this
>> single commit.
>> I do not know whether 1.5.x with its new support of merges will show more
>> information in this case, but 1.4 will not.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Kolinko
>>
>> 2008/6/17 Lars P. <larspontoppi..._at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hello!
>>
>> > I'm using TortoiseSVN for single user version control of software
>> > development.
>>
>> > I have created a branch in a project and worked a lot on that branch
>> > to the point where there software is almost a complete rewrite. Now
>> > the branch is mature enough to use as the main version, and in
>> > principle I would like to make some kind of switch such that the
>> > current trunk becomes a branch (to keep the old version), and the
>> > branch with the new version becomes the trunk.
>>
>> > How do I do that? I'm thinking that I should branch from the old trunk
>> > first and then merge my new branch into trunk. But doing that, will I
>> > also transfer the log of commits I did on the branch such that they
>> > appear when I say "show log" in trunk?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Lars
>
Received on 2008-06-17 21:06:52 CEST