How to get the parent branch...

Afternoon,

For some client-side Tortoise hooks (which are for the purpose of
preventing people shoot themselves in the head in all the myriad ways
Subversion allows), I need to get the ancestor-branch, ie where the
current branch/tag was copied from.

My current strategy for doing this is svn log -q --stop-on-copy, get the
last rev, then svn log -vr thatRev on it, and look for the copied from.
I have to do it in two shots because svn log -v for the whole branch is
too slow.

I'm wondering though if there is a better/faster way of doing this, like
something undiscovered in the API. Server-side I could use
svn.fs.closest_copy() but I only have the working copy to work with.

Furthermore I'm having problems with branches that weren't created
"cleanly", eg users will create a new directory, then svn copy stuff in,
or create a branch from a working copy containing modified files. (Both
bad practices that I'm trying to prevent, but nevertheless these exist
in the wild).

Any help appreciated as always...
jamie

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Received on 2010-12-22 14:10:10 CET