Daniel Shahaf wrote: >Lorenz wrote on Tue, 19 May 2020 05:22 +0000: >> Thorsten Schöning wrote: >> >So why does HEAD doesn't provide any details? Thanks! >> >> though Daniel mentions it already in the first third of his first >> sentence, I wanted to point out the most likely reason more >> explicitly: >> >> Because --limit relates to overall repository revisions, not path >> relates revisions: > >--limit doesn't work the way you say. If you run «svn log --limit=50 >TARGET» and TARGET has been touched by at least 50 commits, you'll get >50 entries in the output, regardless of whether those 50 revisions were >consecutive or not. In particular, «svn log -rHEAD:0 -l1» will _always_ >print something.
jep, I got thrown off by "svn -rHEAD log" really meaning "give me the log for HEAD", not "start showing logs from HEAD". So using --limit with log for any single revision is superfluous. -- Lorenz
