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Re: Delete revision of an object has no peg revision?

From: Byron Brummer <byron.brummer_at_livenation.com>
Date: 2007-01-12 19:06:08 CET

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Now that this horse is completely dead, I'd like to add the following to
> its beating:
> - copies *from* an object are also part of its history.
> I'd like to be able to see at a glance each time I branched an object,
> just like you'd like to see when you delete it.
>
> In fact, maybe these are really different versions of the same request.

        Agreed. SVN stores and reports on "copied from", but not "copied
        to". To compare to CVS most reporting tools (ViewVC, CVSWeb, etc)
        show "Branch point for <branch_name>" at the appropriate log
        entries.

        The information is technically in the system, but much like
        reporting on the delete history the user is forced to pull the
        entire history of repos wholesale, filter out "copied from",
        and run a second set of queries against the results. -And it gets
        more difficult yet again when a copy operation also includes
        modifications (effectively "copied from a modified /file.txt@1234"),
        which can happen when coping (branching) using working copy.

        It's on my "pet peeve" list for SVN. The handling of history
        across peg versions was just the squeakiest wheel at the moment, so
        I tried to be kind to the list and not fire my entire top 10 list
        at everyone all at once. ;-)

-Byron

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