propget on deleted files... bug?

Hi, this is my second request to the list; the first one to users got no
replies. Please tell me if something is not clear.

Goal: I would like to know the svn:mime-type of a certain file that has been
deleted, without actually checking it out to the working folder.

I tried various command line arguments, for example:

svn propget svn:mime-type filename@rev

This works, if the file exists in the working folder. I can't seem to give a
URL instead of a relative path other than when asking for revision
properties (--revprop). Passing a URL worked for svn diff, for example, when
a file had been deleted. The command line tool has a -r option, but this
only works when asking for a revision property.

Is this a bug, a feature, or am I doing something wrong (when I first tried,
I was using the 1.3.0 command line client) ? My intuition is that this would
not yet be implemented and if so, I was wondering if it would be worthwhile
to file a feature request or if this was just one symptom of a whole series
of issues with deleted files.

Note: does buying Karl Fogel's newest book increase my changes of getting a
reply? :)

Thanks for your time,
Jason Kealey
jkealey@shade.ca
http://corp.shade.ca
 

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Received on Thu Apr 13 22:31:51 2006