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Re: Blame information lost in merge

From: Philippe Andersson <pan_at_iba-group.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:43:57 +0200

Hello Mark,

Mark Phippard wrote:
> 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 a lot for the info. I read the description in the book and it
looks like doing exactly what I need... except I can't get it to work!

Example:
--------
- Branch "PRS-4" contains edits by user "philipa". I can see them by
calling blame on the branch:

---------------------<cut>-----------------------
taranis:~/wc/bidon/trunk$ svn blame -r 40
http://taranis/repos/sysadmin/bidon/branches/PRS-4/machin
     30 pan # Dummy file for non-trivial merge tests
     30 pan #
     30 pan # Modification history:
     30 pan # * pan, 07/07/2008: initial release.
     40 philipa # * pan, 07/07/2008: redesign TRUC to bring costs
down [PRS-4].
     30 pan
     36 pan BEURK="Blahhhh"
     40 philipa TRUC="beeehhh"
     30 pan BROL="machin"
     35 pan BIDULE="foobar"
---------------------<cut>-----------------------

This looks OK to me.

- Branch PRS-4 has then been merged in trunk by user "pan".
Now, if I do the same (with option -g) on the revision in trunk that is
the merge result from PRS-4, I get:

---------------------<cut>-----------------------
taranis:~/wc/bidon/trunk$ svn blame -g -r 42
http://taranis/repos/sysadmin/bidon/trunk/machin
       30 pan # Dummy file for non-trivial merge tests
       30 pan #
       30 pan # Modification history:
       30 pan # * pan, 07/07/2008: initial release.
       41 pan # * pan, 07/07/2008: bugfix [PRS-3].
       42 pan # * pan, 07/07/2008: redesign TRUC to bring costs
down [PRS-4].
       30 pan
       36 pan BEURK="Blahhhh"
       42 pan TRUC="beeehhh"
       30 pan BROL="machin"
       35 pan BIDULE="foobar"
---------------------<cut>-----------------------

As you can see, all the lines "belong" to "pan". Merge has been done
with "svn merge --reintegrate". Merge conflicts have been resolved with
kdiff3.

TIA

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.

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