Change SVN Change Log

Question

I use VisualSVN and the turtle to work with the SVN repository. Someone needed some folders moved from one place to a new place in the same replication. I goofed up, although it was just copy / paste the old folders to a new location (I didn’t get the change history, etc.). Since then they have updated a bunch of files. Old files (from a previous location) have not been deleted or anything else. Is there any way to get change history from old files and link them to a new location? I will need to add revision numbers, log messages, etc.

Answer 1

You can go back and restore old files, at first you will not have changes associated with new files. However, you can combine the changes.

So, yes, you can probably get what you want by moving or deleting new files, then copying the old files (with history) to a new location and then changing the necessary changes.

Answer 2

No, you can’t. Not tracking the complete file history, moving / renaming a known SVN failure. If you really need this functionality, you'll be better off with something like git or Mercurial.

And yes, I know that switching to a new VCS many times is actually not an option. Unfortunately, this means that when you come across something like that, you are pretty much stuck.