On 10/27/16 7:04 AM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
I have a repository I had made in a pinch, without any directory
structure, just adding files to the root.
When the time came to add some method to the madness, I created
the 3 canonical directories, then moved (server-side) all files to
'trunk/'. Now, when I issue `svn log' in my freshly checked-out
working copy, I face the following situation:
* 'trunk/' only remembers revisions since when it was created;
I think your example will be easier to follow if you provide more
concrete details, such as the specific log commands you're issuing.
However, without further information, it sounds like Subversion is
functioning as designed. Namely, that in Subversion, a folder has
history just like a file. So if you ask for the history of trunk, you
can only find out the history of the folder back to its birth.
* the single files within 'trunk/' remember and show their full
history;
* when I `cd' to the working copy's "root" ('trunk/..') I see
everything: from 1 to HEAD, including all changes to 'trunk/'.
Now, since no history was lost, this is not a real problem. I'd just
like, for 'trunk/' (i.e.: when I'm in 'trunk/' and issue `svn log') to
see everything back to revision 1. So I guess the question is: is there
a way to tell 'trunk/' that it also "owns" the repository root history
up to its birth?
I don't believe there's any good way to do what you want without
recreating the history of your repository. You might be able to achieve
what you want by doing an svnadmin dump & load, where you load to a
sub-directory trunk", then relocate everything buried a level down
(trunk/trunk/...) back into the top-level trunk folder.
Eric.
Thanks for your comments,
DN
