On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 20:31 -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
For the sake of completeness,
What version of svn are you using?
-Lares
> 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.
>
> [cc'd back to users@, <insert reply-to header comment here>]
>
> -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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