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Re: How to get history on an overwritten svn url?

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:17:32 -0400

On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Bunter wrote:

> Hi all tricky question. We'd like to follow a branch procedure as
> follows:
>
> delete /trunk
> branch /sprint to /trunk
>
> (two weeks later)
>
> delete /trunk
> branch /sprint to /trunk
>
> (etc.)
>
> Problem is, when look at the log of /trunk we see the history of the /
> sprint that just overwrote it (note TortoiseSvn shows an odd gray
> highlight on the branched-in rev as well). The question is, how can
> we see the history of the /trunk that got overwritten? And the one
> that got overwritten before that, etc. Of course we could use unique
> urls for everything, but we'd like to do it as above to simplify the
> scripts we have built on top.

You are most likely looking for peg revisions:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

-Hyrum

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