Re: Moving a moved file

Folker Schamel wrote:

>> In my opinion, the real intent here when we do multiple copies should be
>> that B is a descendant of A, and C is a descendant of B. I would expect
>> svn log --verbose to tell me that.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> François
>
>
> Another sample supporting my agrument of my last email:
>
> svn copy A B
> svn copy B C
> svn move B D
> svn commit
>
> What log would you expect in this situation?

C is a direct descendant of D, which is a direct descendant of A. B was
never in the repository

> I am quite sure, you only can get a consistent behavior
> if the local history does not matter, but only the result
> at commit time.

Local history does matter, when it can be reflected in the repository.
The move from B to D above cannot be so recorded. However, saying that C
is a direct descendant of A would be wrong, and the difference is both
visible and recordable.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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