Echlin, Jamie wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 13:09:24 -0000: > Afternoon, > > For some client-side Tortoise hooks (which are for the purpose of > preventing people shoot themselves in the head in all the myriad ways > Subversion allows), I need to get the ancestor-branch, ie where the > current branch/tag was copied from. > > My current strategy for doing this is svn log -q --stop-on-copy, get the > last rev, then svn log -vr thatRev on it, and look for the copied from.
'svn info' also displays copyfrom. > I have to do it in two shots because svn log -v for the whole branch is > too slow. > > I'm wondering though if there is a better/faster way of doing this, like > something undiscovered in the API. Server-side I could use > svn.fs.closest_copy() but I only have the working copy to work with. > You could use the RA API (svn_ra.h) directly; that ought to be the most efficient solution. > Furthermore I'm having problems with branches that weren't created > "cleanly", eg users will create a new directory, then svn copy stuff in, > or create a branch from a working copy containing modified files. (Both > bad practices that I'm trying to prevent, but nevertheless these exist > in the wild). > > Any help appreciated as always... > jamie > > =============================================================================== > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > communications disclaimer: > http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html > =============================================================================== > >
