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RE: svn copy not updating Last Changed Rev

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:02:06 -0400

Why would you expect the last changed rev of a file to change just because you coppied it to another path? You didn't actually change that file right?

BOb


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon DeVree [mailto:jadevree_at_mtu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:56 PM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: svn copy not updating Last Changed Rev
>
> I noticed that when you svn copy a directory (like for branching and
> tagging) the 'Last Changed Rev' in svn info only moves forward on the
> root of the copy and not every file. The most recent revision in svn log
> will show up as the copy revision though. Shouldn't the 'Last Changed
> Rev' on a path always be the same as the most recent revision shown in
> svn log for the same path?
>
> I noticed this on svn 1.4.2, but it shows up in 1.6.9 as well.
> Here is an example from svn 1.6.9 operating with a local repository, but
> I originally noticed this on svn 1.4.2 with the svn+ssh protocol.
>
> $ svn copy -m "test branch" file:///tmp/svn-repo/trunk
> file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine
>
> Committed revision 5.
>
> SVN info on the root of the copy shows the expected information:
>
> $ svn info file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine
> Path: mine
> URL: file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine
> Repository Root: file:///tmp/svn-repo
> Repository UUID: f5a3ca28-02f1-438b-b454-8e94791581c1
> Revision: 5
> Node Kind: directory
> Last Changed Author: jadevree
> Last Changed Rev: 5
> Last Changed Date: 2010-03-29 13:43:06 -0400 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010)
>
> But SVN info on the file that got copied with the branch is wrong:
>
> $ svn info file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine/file
> Path: file
> Name: file
> URL: file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine/file
> Repository Root: file:///tmp/svn-repo
> Repository UUID: f5a3ca28-02f1-438b-b454-8e94791581c1
> Revision: 5
> Node Kind: file
> Last Changed Author: jadevree
> Last Changed Rev: 2
> Last Changed Date: 2010-03-29 13:40:30 -0400 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010)
>
> SVN log shows revision 5 as the most recent:
>
> $ svn log file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/mine/file
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r5 | jadevree | 2010-03-29 13:43:06 -0400 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010) | 1 line
>
> test branch
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r2 | jadevree | 2010-03-29 13:40:30 -0400 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010) | 1 line
>
> foo
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Interestingly enough, this doesn't happen if you do a local copy +
> commit instead of a server side copy. Having peeked at the fsfs revision
> files, it seems the two types of copies are represented quite a bit
> differently internally.
>
> $ svn copy trunk branches/bar
> A branches/bar
> $ svn commit -m "bar"
> Adding branches/bar
> Adding branches/bar/file
>
> Committed revision 3.
> $ svn info file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/bar/file
> Path: file
> Name: file
> URL: file:///tmp/svn-repo/branches/bar/file
> Repository Root: file:///tmp/svn-repo
> Repository UUID: f5a3ca28-02f1-438b-b454-8e94791581c1
> Revision: 3
> Node Kind: file
> Last Changed Author: jadevree
> Last Changed Rev: 3
> Last Changed Date: 2010-03-29 13:40:53 -0400 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010)
>
> --
> Jon
> "lib64 is a wart on history and should never have been there."
> -Tollef Fog Heen
Received on 2010-03-29 20:01:22 CEST

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