[email protected] wrote on Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:25:08 -0700: > Here's another great use case; suppose we copy foo.html to foo2.html do some > work we can show to people without effecting a live site. > > Later when we want to publish them, like good source control users we (or our > tools !) delete foo.html and rename foo2.html to foo.html > > Now there is now way to see the history of changes for foo.html all the way > back > to when it was first made. > The only workaround seems to be to copy and past the contents of foo2.html > into > foo.html, thus loosing any history associated with those changes.
Your conclusion is inaccurate. If you do: % svn rm foo.html % svn cp foo2.html foo.html % svn ci then 'svn log' will show your entire history. (This assumes foo.html didn't have any changes in the meantime.) If you have further questions, please address them to the [email protected] mailing list.
