On Friday 21 January 2011 02:41 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Hyrum K Wright<hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Arwin Arni<arwin_at_collab.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday 15 January 2011 12:24 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> How can I know if a file is not present in specific revision?
>>>>
>>>> From one side I can run 'svn ls' and if it returns 0 when file exists,
>>>> but if 'svn ls' returns 1 it is impossible to guess between generic
>>>> error and situation when path for file doesn't exist in this specific
>>>> revision. Message parsing seems unreliable, because messages seem to
>>>> depend on locale. Everything could be fine if return codes allowed
>>>> recognizing these conditions. Perhaps there is some other way. Any
>>>> hints?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> anatoly t.
>>>
>>> I think you're looking for "svn info".
>>> To check if a file existed at revision X,
>>>
>>> svn info ^/path/to/file_at_X (from inside the wc)
>>> svn info URL_at_X
>>
>
> This fails if path doesn't exist at specified revision, with:
> URL_at_X: (Not a valid URL)
>
> svn: A problem occurred; see other errors for details
>
If the URL is not valid at the revision specified, doesn't it imply that
the file is absent at that revision too? Am I missing something here?
Regards,
Arwin Arni
Received on 2011-01-21 10:13:50 CET