On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
>> I checked out a source code project from SVN server and then shut it down.
>> Now my understanding is, that with Tortoise I should be able to see logs,
>> version history, etc. But with right mouse click on the local project folder
>> neither the repo-browser, nor the revision graph are showing me anything
>> offline; rather they freeze or show "cannot establish connection to server"
>> and this besides the fact that settings logs offline is activated.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Nothing (we'll shutting down the server is wrong). This isn't Git.
>
> The working copy doesn't have all the revision history in it. Tortoise needs to query the server for that information. Granted, it will cache it, so it "may" be that after it is cached it can show you info without connecting to the server.
To clarify:
TortoiseSVN can cache the *logs* (commit messages and a listing of
what items added/removed/changed), but it doesn't cache the full
*revisions* (actual change contents) like git does.
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Received on 2014-03-27 18:36:18 CET