On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:35:33PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > and if you overwrite a file with svn mv, how do you access > the history of the overwritten file? I don't think in recent versions you can overwrite an existing file using svn mv -- same for svn cp -- I don't know if this has been possible in earlier releases. So you either 'svn mv' the existing destination file to a new location (in which case it retains its history) or you 'svn rm' it (in which case the history ends with that revision) before moving another file to that location.
My guess is that you did a svn rm / svn add instead of svn mv. Or that earlier versions of svn permitted you to move a file to an existing other file deleting the target. > I don't remember the exact details, but being burned once > or twice by svn and move I try to avoid it. maybe latest > svn has improved since and is easier to use? No, I don't think this has changed too much. I was using svn mv to reorganize repos converted from cvs because that hasn't been possible with cvs -- and so far I haven't lost history. Note that svn has from the beginning used "svn cp" to tag a directory (copy it to some other place inside the repo that by convention is used for tags or branches). And this has worked well from the beginning without losing history. The svn mv is the same as cp just deleting the original version afaik. Ralf -- Dr. Ralf Schlatterbeck Tel: +43/2243/26465-16 Open Source Consulting Fax: +43/2243/26465-23 Reichergasse 131 www: http://www.runtux.com A-3411 Weidling email: off...@runtux.com osAlliance member email: r...@osalliance.com _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
