Re: Blame information lost in merge

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Philippe Andersson <pan_at_iba-group.com> wrote:
> Hello again, list,
>
> Here is the scenario:
> - 'file' is modified by John in branch B
> - blame in branch B correctly identifies his contributions
> - branch B is merged in trunk by Sally
> - blame in trunk sees all of 'file' as being contributed by Sally
>
> Is this the expected behaviour ? If so, is it possible to ask "merge" to
> keep the original contribution info ?

This is a feature you get with Subversion 1.5 and merge tracking. To
see the information you want you need to run svn blame -g.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.logblame

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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