Lost svn history

Hi m_m,

Ohloh only shows commits that appear in the svn log for the specific URL you provide.

In this case, svn log https://pyspread.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pyspread/trunk only shows commits as far back as revision 228.

If a directory is copied or renamed, in many cases Ohloh is able to follow this change. However, if you look at the log for revision 228, you can see that there is no prior history indicated. The /trunk directory is simply created from scratch in revision 288, and no link back to older history is provided.

To obtain all of the older history on Ohloh, there needs to be a branch that exists today that includes a continuous, unbroken log all the way back to the older history. Is there an URL in the project today that has a log going all the way back?

Hi m_m,

Yes, unfortunately, it is difficult to convince Ohloh to track the root URL for a Subversion repository.

That's because Ohloh tries very hard to avoid importing the branches and tags directories. Because these directories can contain many duplicate copies of the code, including them can result in severe over-counting of the source code, by many orders of magnitude.

If your project does not contain any branches or tags, and you promise that your project will never have them, I can enlist the root directory manually. Otherwise, we have to accept the limitation that Ohloh must avoid using URLs that include branches and tags.

We get a lot of requests to exclude directories. This isn't something Ohloh can do yet, but it is high on the list for possible new features. Stay tuned.