On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 11:39:56 PM UTC+1 Niklas Matthies wrote:

>
> Well, as a user it's suprising that the log dialog on the one hand 
> is able to construct the history across copies, showing revisions with 
> different URLs, and allows to initiate a copy from such a revision, 
> but then runs into an error. I understand from your comment on the 
> revision graph (which displays fairly quickly for me even with a large 
> number or branches and merges) that the information about the correct 
> URL is not readily available from the SVN history, so from that point 
> of view the behavior makes a certain sense. But it's still rather 
> unexpected from the user's point of view, and arguably could be 
> handled more gracefully. I suspect that it's a scenario that simply 
> wasn't considered when the functionality was originally implemented. 
> (And I fully sympathize with that. :))
>

Well, I've had the same discussion long ago with the svn developers. But 
there's a reason why that info isn't available.

But: I just found an easier way to get this to work (hint: peg revision).
So as of r29071, you can create a branch from a revision from before a 
rename.

Stefan

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