Uwe is right! As long as you us diffs (patches) and have any kind of svn cp / svn mv done to you repository the will not be reflected in the diff. I don't think that there is any way of doing this currently except of the committer is doing it by hand (again) when applying the patch. This is related: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#wc-change-detection
simon On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Uwe Schindler<u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > I think the problem here is that the file was not renamed in SVN. As patches > in JIRA normally do not contain the rename (because they cannot applied with > all actions like renames automatically done), I think the rename got lost. > Renames only work correct, if the person who did the rename in his local > repository also commits the change. > > If you want to see the old directory names, go into web SVN view and show > the directory log of the directory where the file was in. Or just specify > the revision number and start browsing in this old version. > > Normally SVN renames should work like this: see commit 784981 > Here you can see the history is preserved, but only because I did the > move/rename locally and committed from my own computer. To view the full > history do not specify "stop on copy/rename". > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ysee...@gmail.com [mailto:ysee...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yonik >> Seeley >> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:24 AM >> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: losing history >> >> I thought SVN's rename was supposed to preserve history? >> I just wanted to look up the history of MultiTermEnum, and when I went >> to the file (now in DirectoryReader renamed from MultiSegmentReader) >> but all the history is gone before the last rename. IntelliJ and "svn >> log" both showed only 3 versions. >> >> Could I at least get it by specifying the old name from the command >> line? guess not... >> $ svn log ./src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/MultiSegmentReader.java >> svn: 'src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/MultiSegmentReader.java' is not >> under version control >> >> >> tips? >> >> -Yonik >> http://www.lucidimagination.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org