Question

After checking in, svn log --limit 1 does not show my most recent checkin.
If I run svn log --limit 1 -r HEAD I will get my most recent checkin. Does anyone have a guess to what is going on here? Is it a local-time / server time issue? How would I know / resolve?

Answer 1

If you invoke svn log on a working copy it will show you the revisions from your last update, not your last commit. This is because of the concept of mixed versions working copy

Basically imagine this example:

1. 2 Developers (dev_a and dev_b) start to work on some code:
2. both check out same directory, same revision (say r100)
3. dev_a changes file_a.txt
4. dev_b changes file_b.txt
5. dev_a commits revision 101
6. dev_b commits revision 102

both developers workingcopies are now in mixed revisions. So svn log will start on revision r100 on both workingcopies because this is the last updated revision.

dev_b’s workingcopy is not on revision 102, because he didn’t update. So r101 with dev_a’s changes are not in his workingcopy.

The solution is either to update your working copy or use -r HEAD