Re: locating and relinking artifact history after replace action

On 12.04.2013 14:21, Ken Madsen wrote:
> A developer made changes by this sequence of actions:
> 1. copied the artifact
> 2. edited this copy
> 3. deleted the original
> 4. renamed the copy to match the original file name
> 5. commit to repository
>
> This was recognized by svn as a Replace action and now we cannot access the prior revision history from the artifact or locate the prior revision for revert purposes.
>
> Using 1.6 svn and tortoise. Repository actions are done from UIs, not svn commandline.
>
> Is there a way to relink the artifacts (so it is more like what an Update would have done)? If not, is there a way to locate artifacts by name search so we can revert to that in a wc, remake the changes and commit, discarding the artifact that was the "replace"?
>
> Any other suggestions to remedy this circumstance are welcome.

Uncheck "stop on copy" in the log dialog.

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