Hi Cooke,
i think this is a limitation in svn that should be fixed.
without this in place, we would never be able to achieve moving branches to
different location as history will still point to old path that can't be
accessed as it has been deleted
In my project , the folders and branches have been created in very improper
way and now there has been critical need to reorganise the messy branch
structure in svn by moving and recreating proper streamlined branch
structure
now, you are saying history will still point to old location, but now that
old location has been deleted as i had to cleanup old unwanted branches and
folders, i won't be able to access the path showing in svn log and
therefore those logs or history are not relevant for me
and my quest for reorganising svn branch structure in my project will be
failed
don't you guys think, it is a serious limitation which need to be overcome ?
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com> wrote:
> Is this an XY Problem (http://xyproblem.info/) ?
>
> Can you explain WHY it is important to you to show the new path rather
> than the old? It sounds like you think this is the solution to your
> problem (whatever that is) so you ask about your "solution" rather than the
> problem...
>
> ~ mark c
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gyanendra ojha [mailto:ojhagyanendra3_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: 07 November 2016 18:17
> > To: Eric Johnson
> > Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Svn branching issue
> >
> > 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> >
> > <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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on 2016-11-08 12:00:59 CET