Re: history of a file as a comment in the file

Matt imMute Sickler wrote:
> Schroeder, Hartmut wrote:
>> Hi,
>> is there a possibility in subversion to include the history of a file as
>> a comment in the file?
>> (in PVCS that can be done via the keyword $log$)
>>
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>> hartmut
>
> Simply, no.
>
> Slightly more complicated, svn doesnt do that because it would be
> difficult to keep track of what text was part of the log and which parts
> are not.
> If you write a patch that implements this, I am sure the dev team would
> welcome it.

Actually, most likely the patch would not be accepted:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#log-in-source

Regards,
Blair

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Received on 2008-03-18 18:55:29 CET