Re: Potential bug: Retrieve old revision after moving file

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:06, Schmitt, Michael wrote:

> So how can I retrieve the old version? If old revisions are lost in
> space after a move operation

They're not lost. The problem is that only 'svn log' understand
copy-history. ('svn mv' is implemented as 'svn cp && svn rm'). There
are already bugs/feature issues filed on making other subcommands aware
of following history. For example, 'svn diff', 'svn ls', and 'svn cat'
ought to follow history backwards as well.

The workaround for 1.0 is to run 'svn log -v foo.c', and figure out the
exact (revision, path) pair that you want to cat. Then you run

   svn cat -r REV URL-to-old-path

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Received on Tue Feb 17 17:09:02 2004