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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/fc14c182-4afd-487c-b705-ea008be6416en%40googlegroups.com.
