Re: possible improvement to svn log with "forward" revision range

>> For the svn log command the direction "-r N:1" works fine - even if the resource does NOT exist in revision one.
>> So in this case the resource is NOT checked to exist in both start and end revision.
>>
>> For the forward case the existance in the end revision seems to be checked indeed.
>> This is what should be improved to enable the usage of "-r N:HEAD" even for later deleted items.
>>
>
> Ah, I think I see where your problem is.
>
> ***snip***
>
> Does this make sense?

yes, but this is not what i am interested in :-)

I am explicitly interest in finding a more recent revision than N of a specific resource.
   svn log -r N:HEAD path-of-resource_at_N

It is possible to find older revision (-r N:1 path_at_N) and the resource must not exist in revision one.

For the forward case it is checked if the resource exists in HEAD.
If this is not the case (e.g. the resource has been removed in rev. N+100 / HEAD) the command fails.
It would be very helpful if at least the available future revisions of the resource can be queried.

So the improved output of the first command (-r N:HEAD path_at_N) should be (instead of erroring out):
------------------------------------------------------------------------
rN | user | datetime | ...
...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
rN+3 | user | datetime | ...
...
rHEAD-10 | user | datetime | ...

And this should be possible even if the resource has been deleted in revision HEAD-5.

I hope this clarifies what i would expect.

Dirk
Received on 2011-03-07 15:14:53 CET