As you well know, nothing is ever delete from a tree (the complete repository). For the sake of example providing, we'll call your repository "tree" and your Subversion server "svnsrv".
Where I use it, we use ssh and rsh for access to the repositories, so the URL example will be based upon that.
To see the complete log of the tree, a simple:
svn log -v svn+rsh://svnsrv/Tree | less
That will get you every svn entry done to that tree. From there you'll notice the pattern as to what happens by your deleting and branching.
As a side comment, I'm not sure why you don't have a branch subdirectory, since you are branching. Additional, why not create sequentionally named branches, or some unique naming convention for the branches? That way you can keep old branches alive and make them a little easier to access. Doing what you are doing, by constantly deleting and recreating "trunk" gets you into the bind you are in today, since you need to keep track of SVN revision numbers that were used for particular "trunks".
If you had this structure:
Tree/branches/Job_0001
Tree/branches/Job_0002 ...
It would then be easy to see the log entries, i.e.,: svn log -v svn+rsh://svnsrv/Tree/branches/Job_0001 | less
You could care less what the SVN revision numbers are.
My 20 cents in the inflated market :-)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bunter [mailto:brentww04_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:13 PM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: How to get history on an overwritten svn url?
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.
Thankee kindly,
Bunter
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