Re: [Boost-build] v2 organization

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-16 16:14:53

Michael Poole <mdpoole_at_[hidden]> writes:

> In my experience, renames under SVN disrupt history almost as badly as
> under CVS.  Log messages are preserved, but individual changes are
> just as hard to retrieve since the old revision of the repository had
> the changes at the old name -- SVN asks for the old revision at the
> new name, which usually does not exist and is (almost) always wrong.
>
> Related bugs in their issue tracker:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=895
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898 (the second
> comment there is historically amusing)
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2496
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2543

That's fixable in principle, though, isn't it?  I mean, with CVS the
limitation is essentially built in because there's no record of where
things were moved from.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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