Re: svn cat doesn't work on moved files

"SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch> writes:
> it seems that
> svn cat
> doesn't follow moved/renamed files if given
> a revision number:
>
> working copy at revision 2
> svn mv myfile.txt subfolder/myfile.txt
> svn commit --message "file moved"
> svn cat subfolder/myfile.txt -r 2
> svn:RA layer request failed
> svn: PROPFIND of /svn/repos/!svn/bc/2/trunk/project/subfolder/myfile.txt
> 404 Not Found
>
> I guess that's a bug?

Stefan, I was wrong -- this is not issue #891. It's not even a bug.

You create subfolder/myfile.txt in revision *3*. Then you try to cat
it -- from revision 2. Of course that doesn't work :-). The path
doesn't exist in revision 2.

-Karl

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Received on Thu Mar 27 20:12:43 2003