I want to shelve code changes in SVN for the main purpose of code reviews. I'm having a few problems and was hoping someone could check to see if I'm doing anything wrong.
I have set up the repository to have this extra structure:
/shelves
/username1
/username2
Then to create a shelf I am right-clicking the root folder of my working directory, clicking Branch/Tag..., browsing to the correct path (e.g. /shelves/username1/MYPROJECT_29012013), selecting Working copy, and finally OK.
To review the code in my shelf, I am going to the Repo Browser, browsing to the shelf branch, right-clicking it and choosing Show Log. This brings up a popup with a list of files in the lower half. Double-clicking on any of these files brings up a diff of the changes. Magic!
This works perfectly on a little test repo I have created on my machine. On our actual code base (with a remote repo), I get an error when I double-click a file for the diff. It says
"URL http://.../the/file/I/changed.cpp doesn't exist"
Am I doing anything wrong? Or is this likely a bug? Is there a better way to implement shelving and code reviews in TortoiseSVN?
EDIT: This process works fine for my colleague who is on TortoiseSVN 1.7.5 (SVN 1.7.3). I am on TortoiseSVN 1.7.10 (SVN 1.7.7). So this is likely a bug? Or settings are different on my machine?
If you have Stop on copy/rename ticked on the lower left then please untick it. I think it is a bug since even if there is no previous revision for the file then tortoisediff shows blank on the left side of comparison