Re: problem with svn delete file, svn add file, svn log file

On Friday 09 June 2006 17:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

Hi,
the main point:
$ svn diff -r 127:137 filename.txt
svn: Unable to find repository location for 'filename.txt' in revision
127
still make me think that something is wrong.

> > Additionally svn log doesn't show the full story of the file but
> > only the logs for the newest.
>
> I think that's because Subversion sees those as two different files
> that just happen to have the same name.

That sound a reasonable explanation. It's a bug or an undocumented
feature?
An average subversion user using snv log expect the full log history
for the file. There should be an easy way to figure out that a previous
version of the file one time was removed and re-added.
Of course this is a corner case, but I think that an source control
management system should not hide changes since one of its scope is to
*show* (and keep track of) the changes between revisions.

> If you really wanted to
> revive the file, you should have copied it from rev 133, rather than
> adding a new file with the same name.

In fact I try to maintain an usable svn repository, others are screwing
things up.

> I don't think there's any way to merge the history of these two files
> now, but if you don't have much history on the new one, you could do
> this:

I will try, next week.
Thanks.

Daniele

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Received on Fri Jun 9 17:56:10 2006