> I did some tests WRT the lost subversion history of documentation files, > that happened recently. > > Still I don't know, if it is a subversion bug or a feature ;-P , but > IMHO it looks more like a bug. > > I found out that moving directories and copying files into these > directories, and moving the directory again, before committing the > changes, works as expected. History is retained. See appended file > test.txt, test case #1 and #2. (I used a local, existing subversion > repository with some history data). > > But: adding a new (empty) directory, moving files from another directory > into this directory, then moving this directory again ... This results > in lost history information (see test case #3). > > This seems to be what happened ... > > Thus, we should take care, not to do multiple moves of files without > committing the changes step by step, because this _should_ prevent the > loss of history information. Hopefully. > > Albrecht That's exactly what I found friday, if your remember my message. And I'm certain that it is what happened and that it comes from svn.
But probably we should report it to the subversion team ... Does the svn copy between 2 revisions keep the history ? Fabien _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
