> -----Original Message----- > From: Cooke, Mark [mailto:mark.co...@siemens.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:00 PM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Cc: KARR, DAVID > Subject: RE: If our SVN server is 1.6.12, why don't I see older merge > history on elements merged from branch to trunk? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: KARR, DAVID [mailto:dk0...@att.com] > > Sent: 12 July 2012 00:39 > > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: If our SVN server is 1.6.12, why don't I see older > > merge history on elements merged from branch to trunk? > > > > It appears that our SVN on our server was recently upgraded > > from a version before merge history tracking was implemented, > > to version 1.6.x, where merge history should be available. > > However, I checked the SVN history for an element that I made > > changes to on a branch, and I looked at that same element > > after it was merged (by someone else) to the trunk. My > > changes are in that file, but the SVN history doesn't include > > the checkin that I did. Is this simply happening because of > > how the merge to trunk was done? Is there a particular way > > that merges have to be done to preserve merge history? > > It sounds like you are expecting merge history to magically appear for > merges done _before_ the server was upgraded? In that case, no, svn > does not go back and try to re-create history (I suspect that would be > at best an error-prone exercise) but you should start to see info being > added going forward.
I suppose I can see how you would have gotten that impression. I'm pretty sure the upgrade was implemented before the recent merge. I guess I'll need to verify that to be sure.
