Re: svn cat broken by folder rename in repository

Simon Large wrote:
> If I rename a folder in the repository, svn cat seems unable to traverse
> the rename to get old revisions. This shows up in TortoiseSVN (where I
> originally reported the problem) when I try to do a visual diff, for which
> TSVN needs access to both revisions.

If you rename from 'Foo' to 'Bar' at revision X, revisions < X don't contain a
'Bar', which is why you can't 'svn cat' it.
People are aware of this fact, but this is not easy to do right, as the same
path within a repository could have been populated by different items
throughout the history, at least I think that was the problem.

> Using TSVN 1.1.0 RC1, which is built on SVN 1.1.0 RC2.

That's not specific to TSVN, but a feature of SVN.

Uli

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Received on Fri Aug 27 12:36:14 2004