Re: MERGE: Command Line Results Different from TortoiseSVN Results

On 14.01.2015 22:54, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> On 15/01/2015 06:03, Marcia Almeida Rocha quoth:
>> I’m using : TortoiseSVN 1.8.8, Build 25755 - 64 Bit , 2014/08/10
>> 14:44:06
>>
>> I think it is a TortoiseSVN bug because the behavior is different
>> from command line.
>>
>> If I use command line to list the revisions eligible to be merged
>> I’ve received a result X.
>
> It looks like those results are the same, except that TSVN also lists
> revisions 1 and 610.
>
> It's a long-standing bug that TSVN will not hide revisions from the
> "natural history" of a branch (the revision that the branch was
> created from, and its parents). It's likely that this is what you're
> seeing, although there wasn't enough info in the screenshots to be
> sure.
>
> The natural history is correctly excluded from the actual merge
> operation, however; this is just an issue with the log.
>
> I'm not certain of this, but I believe this has been fixed in TSVN
> 1.9, which is not yet released.

It's been fixed for a long time, but not enabled by default. The reason
for enabling it by default is that it is very expensive to find the
copyfrom-revision, which is necessary to do that.
You can enable the behavior in the settings dialog->Advanced page:
set the value of LogFindCopyFrom to 'true'.

Stefan

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