Re: Trying to find an old file in my repositroy.

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:37, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Somewhere, deep in the misty dark ages of my repository, there is a
> particular file I'm trying to find. I'm sure it's been moved a dozen times.
> What's the best way to find such a thing? Right now I'm checking out version
> after version, looking for it.

Repeated checkouts?!?! Ahhh, stop that! That's what 'svn log -v' is
for!

Brute force: run 'svn log -v' on the root URL of your repository. Save
the output. Then grep for all deleted files ("D /some/path"). If it
were me, I'd just do an incremental search in emacs.

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Received on Fri Dec 12 18:46:24 2003