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 <e...@tibco.com
<mailto:e...@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>
Eric.
