See my aim is to create branch a/a.txt from b/a.txt and then del a..and i
want history in branch a to show path for branch b not a..is it possible?
I know as b is branched from a..modification history of b will habe
reference of a..but i want other way around
On 7 Nov 2016 23:44, "Eric Johnson" <eric_at_tibco.com> wrote:
>
> 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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