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Re: logging externals commit

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 00:13:39 +0200

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Zvika Castel <zvikac_at_tase.co.il> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> In general, it's about seeing the log of a commit to an externals file.
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> I will try to describe the situation:
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> I have folder named "Master" with file named "FileA.txt" in it.
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> Somewhere in the project tree I have also a folder named "Slave" with an externals "FileB.txt" pointing to "Master/FileA.txt"
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> Now, on Update I get two files on my working directory tree, FileA under Master and FileB under Slave.
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> A developer changed "FileB.txt" and commit his changes (at this point changes were made on FileA.txt because it's a "share").
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> Now, I open the log to see all the changes made on "Slave" folder and…
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> There is not a single sign that someone has change "FileB.txt"
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> I know what SVN is doing under the hood, I know I can see the log of "Master" folder and see the transaction over there, but…
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> What I expected, as a developer, that SVN will show me MY actions, not his.
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> When I open the log of "Slave" folder I want to see that someone has changed "FileB.txt".
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> Consider this as a feature request.

Searching the mailing list archives, this question has come up a
couple of times:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-08/0552.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-04/0119.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2011-08/0422.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/archive-2010-04/0075.shtml

But none of these threads really brings the discussion to a close (and
it's not clear whether it's easily implementable within the current
svn design).

Maybe it's a good idea, whether or not it's doable, to at least add
this to the issue tracker as a feature request.

Zvika, feel free to enter this into the issue tracker.

-- 
Johan
Received on 2013-10-08 00:14:38 CEST

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