Re: History of erased file

On 10 Dec 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> "Roman Rytov" <rrytov@entopia.com> writes:
>
> > I had a file called a.txt which I renamed it to b.txt. Looking at
> > history of b.txt I see that it hails from a.txt and all history belonged
> > to a.txt obviously transferred to (b.txt)'s history. But since there is
> > no file a.txt anymore is it possible to figure out somehow where a.txt
> > became b.txt?
>
> Run 'svn log b.txt --verbose'.

Ok, but what if you don't know that a has been became to b?
How do you find this out? If there is myriad files it would be real pita
to try find out what has happened to a.

I think that it would be really nice if there is something like that:

(Precond: a dosen't exist at the moment)

$ svn please_tell_me_what_has_happened_to_this_item a.txt
svn:
a -> b at revision xyz

Even better:

$ svn please_tell_me_what_has_happened_to_this_item a.txt
svn:
a -(21)-> b
b -(42)-> c
c -(xyz)-> d
d is a's incarnation at the moment

Where inside parenthesis is revision number when this happened.

$ svn please_tell_me_what_has_happened_to_this_item a.txt
svn:
a has been deleted at revision xyz

What do you think?

BR, Jani

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Jani Averbach
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