On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:20 -0800, Lawrence Bruhmuller wrote:
> Yes, that would definitely explain the last thing I saw. Looks like a
> bug to me, what do you think?
It looks like a bug to me.
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-Lares
> Lares Moreau wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:10 -0800, Lawrence Bruhmuller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>So I thought I understood exactly what HEAD, COMMITTED, BASE, etc. all
> >>stood for, how they behaved, particularly in relation svn log. Turns
> >>out that I don't, and I am thoroughly confused. Please correct my
> >>understanding if the below is incorrect.
> >>
> >>Looks to me like HEAD is a repository-wide variable. No matter where in
> >>my working copy I go, HEAD is always the same, absolute latest in the
> >>repos. Hence, if I do svn log -r HEAD in some subdirectory, I might not
> >>get anything back if those files weren't touched as part of the single
> >>HEAD revision.
> >>
> >>Seems like BASE works the same way (i.e. sometimes I get nothing, if I
> >>get a revision it is always the same, assuming that I don't selectively
> >>update my working copy).
> >>
> >>Now, COMMITTED seems like it varies depending on where I am. If I do
> >>svn log -r COMMITTED in one subdirectory, I'll get a different revision
> >>than if I do it in another directory, and the revisions returned did
> >>indeed include at least one file from the directory. And these two
> >>directories are updated to latest, as part of the same call to svn update.
> >>
> >>This is very confusing! I can't believe the documentation (that I've
> >>found) doesn't call out this location sensitive behavior of COMMITTED,
> >>if that is in fact the case.
> >>
> >>However, now I'm totally befuddled because I have a new directory
> >>(something was just added and committed, nothing since) and svn log -r
> >>COMMITTED gives me no results! So maybe my assumption above is flawed.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Something like this? I don't know if it's a bug or not.
> >
> >+++
> >lares@jarita test % svn log -r HEAD
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >r3 | lares | 2006-02-06 20:11:46 -0700 (Mon, 06 Feb 2006) | 2 lines
> >Added bar/
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >lares@jarita test % svn mkdir some_dir
> >A some_dir
> >lares@jarita test % svn ci -m "Added some_dir/"
> >Adding some_dir
> >Committed revision 4.
> >lares@jarita test % svn log -r HEAD
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >r4 | lares | 2006-02-06 20:15:35 -0700 (Mon, 06 Feb 2006) | 1 line
> >Added some_dir/
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >lares@jarita test % svn log -r COMMITED
> >svn: Syntax error in revision argument 'COMMITED'
> >lares@jarita test % svn log -r COMMITTED
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >r3 | lares | 2006-02-06 20:11:46 -0700 (Mon, 06 Feb 2006) | 2 lines
> >Added bar/
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >lares@jarita test % svn up
> >At revision 4.
> >lares@jarita test % svn log -r COMMITTED
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >r4 | lares | 2006-02-06 20:15:35 -0700 (Mon, 06 Feb 2006) | 1 line
> >Added some_dir/
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >+++
> >
> >-Lares
> >
> >
> >
>
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