Re: Merge information in ls OR "svn ls -v -g"

[James Hanley <jh...@dgtlrift.com>]

There's no interest/descending/rebuttal opinion to this?  Should I
create a enhancement ticket? I thought that this was the medium to
first propose changes/enhancements for discussion.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, James Hanley <jh...@dgtlrift.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm raising the issue that there should be an option to include merge
> information of an "ls -v" in much the same way that "svn blame"
> supports it. Although, I can easily use "svn blame -g" to find out who
> /originally/ added a file, it's not intuitive, the more natural method
> (IMHO) is to use "svn ls -v -g" to give the info on who originally
> added/modified a file, not necessarily the last to merge the new file.
>
> Essentially, I'm looking for merge history blame on a path structure
> in the same way that I can get merge history blame on an individual
> file contents.
>
> -Jim

Re: Merge information in ls OR "svn ls -v -g"

[Mark Phippard <ma...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:08 AM, James Hanley <jh...@dgtlrift.com> wrote:
> There's no interest/descending/rebuttal opinion to this?  Should I
> create a enhancement ticket? I thought that this was the medium to
> first propose changes/enhancements for discussion.

My 2 cents would be that I do not see the need or value.  The ls
command is only showing a single version of each path, I do not see
how you could show merge info.  If you want to see the history of a
path, then use the svn log -g command.

> I'm raising the issue that there should be an option to include merge
> information of an "ls -v" in much the same way that "svn blame"
> supports it. Although, I can easily use "svn blame -g" to find out who
> /originally/ added a file, it's not intuitive, the more natural method
> (IMHO) is to use "svn ls -v -g" to give the info on who originally
> added/modified a file, not necessarily the last to merge the new file.

What if the most recent change to the file was a regular commit, but
the previous change was the merge?  What if the last change was the
commit of a merge but there were 4 different revisions by 4 different
authors.  I do not see how ls is supposed to represent that.

> Essentially, I'm looking for merge history blame on a path structure
> in the same way that I can get merge history blame on an individual
> file contents.

The command to inspect the history of a path is svn log, not svn ls.
Add the -g option to log if you want to include merge information.

-- 
Thanks

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/