CVS users section

[Trenton D. Adams]

> From: "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
> To: "Trenton D. Adams" <trenta at athabascau.ca>
> Cc: svnbook-dev at red-bean.com
> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 2:56:27 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: CVS users section
>
>   * 'cvs log' will show changes on the main line and all tags and
> branches;
>     'svn log' will not (because branches and tags have their own
> distinct
>     repository locations in Subversion).
> 
>   * 'cvs log' always shows the latest changes; 'svn log' will only
> show
>     you (by default) the logs *as of the current revision of your
> working
>     copy directory*.  (But you can override this default by using
>     'svn log . at HEAD' .)

You are correct, that does work.  And my original wording was incorrect.  I see the logs of all the files, just not all the revisions in the version tree, of those files.

> 
> As far as I can recall, but both of these facts are documented in the
> book.

I searched for "@HEAD" in the book, and I see only one occurrence, and it is not related to "log".  Perhaps a section in the book for "log" differences between CVS and subversion would be helpful.  

> 
> > Also, there's a few other issues with log information.  In CVS, I
> only
> > ever had to do a log command on the local copy, to get the log
> > information.  Now, with SVN, you have to use the remote repository
> URL,
> > such as "svn log svn+ssh://somehost/home/svn/repo/blah_project", to
> get
> > all of the logs for that project.  Again, I think that's a
> regression,
> > but it should probably be mentioned in the book.
> 
> Sorry, but as reported, this isn't true.  I would encourage you to hop
> over
> to users at subversion.tigris.org and see how your understanding of 'svn
> log'
> compares with reality.  Maybe you are hitting one of the common traps
> that
> new Subversion users tend to fall into?  If you find that you are,
> please
> report back here with what you learn, and we can see about pointing
> out
> those traps a little more clearly in the book.

Oh, I think I understand now.  What I was trying to say, is that I wasn't seeing all the logs of all revisions, when logging on the local copy.  But, seeing that it's a revision tree, I shouldn't see all revision logs, just the ones that pertain to the current tree.  So, if I checked out the main branch, where trunk, branches, and tags reside, an "svn . at HEAD" would display the same thing as "svn log svn+ssh://somehost/home/svn/repo/blah_project".  With CVS it was different because the revisions were on files, not directory trees.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com> |
> http://cmpilato.blogspot.com/


Trenton D. Adams
Systems Analyst/Web Software Engineer
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Athabasca University
(780) 675-6195
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