> -----Original Message----- > From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2007 1:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: lost svn history for samples (Was: commit: r556367 [1/2]) > > Gav.... wrote: > > From: David Crossley > > > > > > Ooops. You should have used 'svn move'. This has now lost all > > > the svn history for those files. > > > > Welcome back :) > > > > Do you know, I did try and use 'svn move' but it would have > > none of it, several complaints of which I can't remember. > > If you have problems when commiting, then please discuss > it with your friends. > > > I suppose we could revert back before this commit and then try > > the svn move again ? > > Yes please. We connot afford to lose svn history. > > If you continue to have trouble, then one of the other > committers will need to help.
Ok, someone then had better let me know the best way to revert trunk back so I don't bu&&er up the history again. I know I can revert my local changes back to before, but then should I commit that, then make make new changes with svn:move then commit again ? Is that the best way to approach it ? Gav... > > > One file doesn't get moved but gets changed > > instead (index.xml) meaning we can't move that directory whole, each > file > > would need to be done individually I think. > > There is always a way. Perhaps index.xml needs to be copied > and the others moved. Individually perhaps. It is trivial > to create a temporary shell script to do the individual > moves and copies. For example, use 'ls samples > temp.sh' > and vi to edit it into a shell script which performs a > list of 'svn mv' or 'svn cp' commands. > > -David
