[Trac] Suggestion: add (Copied from xxx:ryyy) to changeset display

[Jeffrey E. Forcier]

This would be pretty nice, as it's a basic tenet of the whole trunk- 
branch-tag development process. The Subversion book stipulates that  
you should do this yourself, which is what I do--manually track where  
the branch/tag came from--and that Subversion does not do this  
manually because that's the aegis of a full source control system.  
Which describes Trac to a tee :)

A quick spin around Trac's Trac results in the following pages/tickets:

http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracReleaselist
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/1578 (linked above)
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/959 (linked above)

So, at least a few someones are already thinking about this =) I  
didn't read the Wiki page in full (busy) so I don't know how fully  
it's being realized aside from that patch.

Regards,
Jeff

On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> Hi, trac folks.
>
> I don't know much about the Python interface to Subversion, but  
> when I make a tag by copying like this:
>
>   svn cp $SVN/branches/shake_104_branch $SVN/tags/rel_shake_106
>
> then I can see this nice stuff in the xml svn log showing me where  
> it was copied from:
>
> % svn log --xml -v --stop-on-copy $SVN/tags/rel_shake_106
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <log>
> <logentry
>    revision="9653">
> <author>garyo</author>
> <date>2005-06-15T17:36:10.453579Z</date>
> <paths>
> <path
>    copyfrom-path="/branches/shake_104_branch"
>    copyfrom-rev="9652"
>    action="A">/tags/rel_shake_106</path>
> </paths>
> <msg>Tagging from shake_104_branch for release 1.06</msg>
> </logentry>
> </log>
> %
>
> If the same info is available via the Python interface, it'd be  
> really nice if trac would show me, either on the changeset display  
> page or preferably in the timeline, a notation like this:
>   [9653]: tags/rel_shake_106 (Copied from /branches/ 
> shake_104_branch:[9652])
> and stop there.  Currently I get pages of output, showing each file  
> in my whole world as "Added" and no indication of where it was  
> copied from.  I think if an action for a dir is "A" and the  
> copyfrom-path and copyfrom-rev exist, trac should just note that  
> and not list each file in the dir.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> -- Gary Oberbrunner
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