Matthias Gerstner wrote on Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:27:17 +0100: > > "new" was created in r2 so running 'log' on it will not show earlier > > revisions. (Well, unless you pass -g) 'log' just walks the history of > > a node; it won't show revisions in which that node did not exist. > > > > But the reference to r1 is not lost; is it present in line 4 of the > > output: > > Thanks for the reply. > > Yes I have the reference to the move operation. But getting the actual > history of "/old/place" requires me to move into "/new/place/old" and > run 'svn log' there. > > My use case is that I'm doing a big reorganization if small repositories > into a large repository. To do this I use 'svnadmin dump/load' and move > the resulting directories around in the new repository to achieve a new > structure. Basically I have something like this: > > /A > /B > /C > > becomes > > /trunk/A > /trunk/B > /trunk/C >
Did you accomplish that as three individual moves? Try accomplishing it as 'svn cp ^/ ^/trunk' instead. > Directory structures A, B and C each have their individual history. Now > when I am located at /trunk I want to be able to easily inspect the > history of all three A, B and C. This is not possible given the > behaviour of 'svn log' in this respect.
