Re: svn cat doesn't work on moved files

Philip Martin writes:
>
> I asked "straight to wc/foo in rev X" or "follow history to wc/bar".
>
> > I do a checkout of rev X. I know that a checkout of a single file is
> > not possible in subversion, but svn cat should work like that.
>
> Lets try again
>
> rev X: wc/foo contains text "foo"
> wc/bar contains text "bar"
>
> rev X+1: mv wc/foo wc/zig
> mv wc/bar wc/zag
> commit
>
> rev X+2: mv wc/zig wc/bar
> mv wc/zag wc/foo
> commit
> wc/foo contains text "bar"
> wc/bar contains text "foo"
>
> So the working copy contains wc/foo at rev X+2 with contents "bar".
> When I run 'svn cat -rX wc/foo' do I get contents "foo" or contents
> "bar"?

I vote for "bar". To me that reads "In rev X, what did the filesystem
object that is called wc/foo in my wc contain? (if it existed at
all)", and thus the rename history should be followed back in time.

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