[Kde-scm-interest] fetch history of a subdir

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 20.00.32 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem here with the rules for the kdevelop python plugin.
> The original code was in a work-branch, then a new "python" directory
> was created in playground and the code moved from the work-branch into a
> subdir of this new subdir (in fact branches/work/kdev-pg_python_parser
> was moved to ../python/kdev-pg_pyhton_parser). And then the directory
> was renamed in playground to just "parser". I've tried the following to
> import the history of the plugin as well as the parser code:
> 
> match /trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/python/
>   repository kdevelop-python
>   branch master
> end match
> 
> match /branches/work/kdev-pg_python_parser/
>   repository kdevelop-python
>   branch master
> end match
> 
> match /trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/python
>   action recurse
> end match
> 
> Unfortunately this generates a repository which has the files of the
> parser subdir also in the top-level directory. So it seems like one of
> the moves wasn't followed properly.
> 
> Any suggestions how to fix this without loosing the history from the
> work-branch?

If all moves are with svn history I don't think you need to do anything. The 
tool does it for you.

/Regards
Torgny