I have tortoise svn but I use the command line for moving. svn move https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/trunk/foo/somefile.txt https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/trunk/bar/somefile.txt -m "log message here"
If you get into trouble just stop where you are and post to the list. Myself or someone else familiar with SVN can bail you out. Sean On 3/29/06, Dennis Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure why, but the history has always been preserved for me even > though it looks as though you are literally deleting and adding a different > file. This is how it is on projects here at my day job and w/ MyFaces repo ( > w/ Eclipse ). > > Dennis Byrne > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 08:10 PM > >To: 'MyFaces Development' > >Subject: Re: Moving a file with svn under Windows. > > > >On 3/29/06, Dennis Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you drag it from one folder to another, right click on the folder you > >> dragged it to, and go to "team" -> "commit", it preserves history. > >> > >> I know, not very intuitive but it does work ;) > > > >I'm assuming you mean from Eclipse. > > > >That's what I did (dragged it from myfaces-impl to tomahawk-sandbox), > >but it still looks like it's going to do an add rather than a move. > > > >I wonder if the problem is because it changed projects..... > > > >Or maybe it'll do the right thing even though it looks like an add. > >I suppose it's a trivial enough class (just a trivial subclass of > >FacesException) that it doesn't matter if history gets lost. > > > > >
