Re: Non-recursive svn log?

Puetz Kevin A wrote:
> Is there any way to ask for the log info for direct changes to a
> directory without also getting changes for all of its descendants? I'm
> using the svn_ra API via the perl bindings.
>
> For instance, I want to identify the revision in which properties set on
> the repository root were last changed; I would obviously rather not
> download the entire history of the repository to do so. I could avoid
> the "entire history" aspect either by returning an error to abort
> (though this leaves the RA connection busted), or by using limit to grab
> them in chunks and quit when I've found a change, but if the last change
> is in the distant past I'll still have downloaded a *lot* of data about
> file changes that I didn't actually want to see. Is there a way to ask
> for only the folder?

The problem is that when a change is made to any file or directory, it actually
modifies all the parent folders all the way to the root folder, so that's why
you're seeing changes on child files and folders. This is at the core
Subversion repository level.

So you're basically asking for is a new ra method to get that information and
then filter it out server side.

Blair

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Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
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