On Dec 20, 2007, at 06:52, John Peacock wrote:
> Srilakshmanan, Lakshman wrote:
>
>> The issue is that when you rename a file and commit the renamed
>> file, the ***
>> original file *** delete operation is not performed and therefore
>> that file
>> is still available and appears to be under a ** different **
>> object ID. How
>> do I know ? a log of the original file does not traverse the tree.
>
> Here's where you lost me. If you are using TortoiseSVN, you right
> click on the
> file and _from the TortoiseSVN submenu_ choose Rename (or Move, I
> don't have it
> in front of me). You do NOT use the normal Windows "Rename" command.
>
> I'm pretty confident this is driver error, but because of the
> vagueness of your
> description, I can't figure out what you actually did. I recommend
> creating a
> test repository and test files and try it out again and make
> careful note of
> which steps you are taking. Then, if it doesn't work the way I
> described, you
> should take this up with the TSVN list, because this does work in
> Subversion.
I believe he did
svn mv old new
followed by
svn ci new
which committed the addition of new but not the deletion of old. I
believe he could have done
svn ci new old
or if not, then
svn ci .
I have no information on this "object ID" notion however.
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Received on Thu Dec 20 14:30:22 2007