Re: description of Peg Revision Algorithm is incomplete

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2010-03-30 12:12:59 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Interactions in the working copy with the path some/file.c only make sense
>> if there is actually such a path in the working copy. If some/file.c is
>> deleted in r51, then either it isn't in your working copy (because you've
>> updated past r50) or it is, at r50 or earlier. If it is, you run 'svn cat
>> some/file.c' as usual. If it isn't, then the path 'some/file.c' has no
>> meaning anyway, so it falls to you to spelunk history and tell Subversion
>> more precisely what object you're talking about.
>
> I want a simple way to say: consider the current directory at r50
> (walking back through the history) and the object some/file.c in
> it at the same revision.

I'm sure you're not alone, but Subversion doesn't cleanly provide such a way
today.

$ svn cat `svn info some/ -r50 | grep ^URL: | cut -c 6-`/file.c_at_50

:-)

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