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Re: SVN Blame doesn't work well with moved files

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:25:24 -0400

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:39, Craig McQueen
<craig.mcqueen_at_beamcommunications.com> wrote:
> From: Stefan Küng
>> On 22.03.2011 01:04, Craig McQueen wrote:
>> > Blame is a very useful tool, though I’m having trouble using it on
>> files
>> > that have been moved.
>> >
>> > I have a working copy that is updated to an old revision of a
>> > repository. It contains a file that has subsequently been moved. If I
>> > try to do a “blame” on that file in that working copy (revisions 1 to
>> > HEAD), I get an error message “File not found: revision xxxx, path
>> > ‘/etc/etc/movedfile.c’. (I don’t want to update the working copy to
>> > HEAD, because I’m interested more in the file’s older history,
>> excluding
>> > all that’s happened to it after it was renamed.)
>> >
>> > Perhaps by saying up to HEAD, that implies that the file must still
>> be
>> > at the same path in HEAD. However, what I wish for is for Blame to
>> look
>> > at the file’s history pegged at the path and revision that the
>> working
>> > copy revision points to, and going as far forward as possible.
>> >
>> > If the above is too hard, it would also be nice if the “Revision” box
>> > was pre-loaded with the revision number of that working copy.
>>
>> Done in r21039.
>>
>
> Hello, I've tried this in release 1.6.15, Build 21041, and it doesn't seem to behave any differently than before. Am I misunderstanding something?

New features are not added to releases of the stable version (1.6.x,
presently), only trunk (which will become 1.7.x someday).

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