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RE: Offline Versions and Logs not available

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:15:14 +0000

> 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.

Right thanks for clarifying that. I didn't mean to imply that revisions are cached.

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