"Richard Meade" <richard.meade@shenick.com> wrote on 03/14/2005 01:42:46
PM:
> I am just starting with subversion, cvs2svn & subclipse,
> so apologies if this is a known issue, but I couldn't find
> anything about it...
>
> If I checkout a WC of a tag that has been copied from trunk,
> then subclipse will show me the revision history going back
> to the trunk, but if I try to view previous revisions I get:
> Failed in remoteFile.getContents()
> and consequently you can't diff against these revisions either!
>
> I am using subversion 1.1.1, subclipse 0.9.28 and eclipse 3.0.1
> on the same machine - a Win2K box (I am using this box for testing,
> but we will be running on RedHat, so if this is a Windows issue
> that would be fine :-)
That is a Subversion limitation that has been resolved in trunk and will
be available when Subversion 1.2 comes out.
Basically svn cat -r XYZ does not work against a URL unless the revision
actually exists in that specific URL. In your case, since it would be
running against the tags URL the file does not exist.
Mark
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Received on Tue Mar 15 05:40:40 2005