On 11/7/16 10:10 AM, gyanendra ojha wrote:
>
> Ok so u mean ..there is no way out for this..no solution
>
Maybe, maybe not. It isn't clear whether your concern is about losing
history, or that Subversion doesn't let you rewrite history to reflect
some arbitrary desired state.
Subversion won't lose history.
Eric.
>
> On 7 Nov 2016 23:37, "Eric Johnson" <eric_at_tibco.com
> <mailto:eric_at_tibco.com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/16 9:58 AM, gyanendra ojha wrote:
>
> hi eric,
>
> that is the issue, new branch created from old location is
> having the old path in svn log,i want it to point it to newly
> created branch path
>
> for example there is svn old branch //depot/a/a.txt
>
> now if i create branch //depot/b from old branch
>
> it will have a.txt in b branch..but when i go to
> //depot/b/a.txt and at GUI of SVN..do right click and select
> show log option..it shows history of changes done in
> a.txt but
> in path section it still shows //depot/a/a.txt instead of
> //depot/b/a.txt..now if old branch gets deleted..this history
> will be irrelevant for me
>
>
> As I said I in my previous response, you should review info on peg
> & operative revisions.
>
> Also, even if you delete //depot/a/ , the history of //depot/a
> persists, it is just not accessible when "peg" revision is "HEAD".
>
>
> requirement is to move a/a.txt to new location b/a.txt with
> history retained and that history should have changes pointing
> to new location b/a.txt not a/a.txt
>
>
> With Subversion, you cannot have the history changes pointing to
> the new location after your move, because that would not reflect
> the actual history! That would be re-writing history as if folder
> "a" never existed.
>
> Eric.
>
>
> i hope now u understand my issue
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Eric Johnson <eric_at_tibco.com
> <mailto:eric_at_tibco.com> <mailto:eric_at_tibco.com
> <mailto:eric_at_tibco.com>>> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/6/16 10:26 PM, gyanendra ojha wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was assigned a task to move a branch or folder to
> different
> location in svn
>
> Making sure that history of the old branch is retained
> and not
> lost
>
> I was able to do it and history was showing in even
> new branch
>
> But my problem is that when i do svn log in new branch
> location..it shows me path still of old branch
>
>
> The old location is part of the history of the folder. As new
> changes appear in the new location, those changes will
> show the
> new path. Older changes that happened in the older
> location will
> show the old path.
>
> Perhaps you're using something other than the command line
> client?
> Perhaps the UI is making this confusing?
>
> svn log has a "--stop-on-copy" option that will show you the
> history of the changes only in the current location.
>
> I want history for this new branch to change as per
> new branch
> path..so that even in case the old branch gets deleted..i
> might be able to view the changes showing in svn log
> by going
> to the path
>
> Subversion will not lose your older changes, even if you
> delete
> the old path. All that deleting the old path does is
> remove the
> reference to the contents for current and future versions
> of the
> parent folder. Older versions of the parent folder still
> contain
> the older version of the child folder.
>
> You might benefit from understanding the difference
> between the
> "peg" and "operative" versions.
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html>
>
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html>>
>
> Eric.
>
>
>
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