Re: Possible bug: --stop-on-copy stops too early

Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2011, 12:22:44 schrieb Stephen Butler:

> The "A", along with the "from <path>:<rev>", means that /software was
> copied from /PALISNC in this revision, so 'svn log --stop-on-copy' stops
> at this revision.
>
> I searched for "--stop-on-copy" in the bug tracker, and turned up
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2518
> "Allow --stop-on-copy to traverse a fixed number of copies > 1"
>
> Unfortunately no one's picked it up yet. There's an interesting suggestion
> in the comments: the log shouldn't stop if the copy-source was deleted in
> the same revision. Of course, that assumes that the delete and the copy
> (the two halves of the renaming) were committed in the same revision.

Hmm, if it stops on _any_ copy, then maybe "svn log --stop-on-copy" is the
wrong command for finding the base rev of a branch. Is there a better
alternative?

Bye...

        Dirk

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