Re: Locating directory in old revision

On Dec 23, 2007, at 17:33, John wrote:

> I want to export a directory from my repos that does not exist in
> the latest revision.
>
> I can see it if I use "svn list -r nnn"
>
> However if I do "svn info -r nnn" I get an error like the below:
>
> $ svn list -r 145 http://10.0.0.200/svn/server/mod
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/bc/155/server/mod'
>
> (I'm trying to extract r145, current is r155)
>
> After revision 145, I moved the directory to another part of my tree:
>
> svn mv http://10.0.0.200/svn/server/mod http://10.0.0.200/svn/abc -
> m "make abc tree"
>
> I thought previous states were preserved?
>
> Any help/explanation apreciated....

Try "svn info URL@nnn" (instead of "svn info -r nnn URL"). Read about
the difference between peg and operative revisions:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

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Received on Mon Dec 24 00:41:57 2007