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RE: Finding the revision where (the parent of) a file was deleted

From: Gavin Lambert <colnet_at_mirality.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:12:17 -0700 (PDT)

On 31/07/2015 02:08, Daniel Stiefelmaier quoth:
> If you get a tree-conflict during merging because the modified file (and
> possibly ist parent) no longer exists,
> what you would probably like to do is to check the log, when, how and
> why the file was deleted.
>
> However, if the containg director[y|ies] have been removed, it is a
> little bit tricky to find that revision.
>
> My proposal would be to have an option like "show implicitly deleted
> files and directories".

It would be relatively straightforward to find if there was a Log option to only show changes to the selected directory and not subdirectories -- especially if the directory that still exists only contains other directories and not files.

It's been asked for before but IIRC it's a limitation of the SVN library, so it probably needs to be a feature request over on that side.

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