Re: Is this correct behavior for svn cat?

Tom Mornini wrote:
>
> I'm trying to extract an old file in a previous revision.
>
>> tmornini$ svn --version
>> svn, version 1.2.3 (r15833)
>> compiled Aug 23 2005, 21:11:48
>>
>> tmornini$ svn ls -r54 svn+ssh://host.name.replaced/video/trunk/docs
>> video.dez
>> video.pdf
>>
>> tmornini$ svn cat -r54 svn+ssh://host.name.replaced/video/trunk/
>> docs/video.pdf > ~/Desktop/video.pdf
>> svn: File not found: revision 510, path '/trunk/docs/video.pdf'
>
>
> That is *frustrating*.
>

Since you are looking at a repository URL, try the svn cat URL@REV form:

svn cat svn+ssh://.../docs/video.pdf_at_54

The svn cat -r form is better to use when you want to cat a specific
revision of a file in your working copy e.g.

svn cat -r54 wc/docs/video.pdf

In the above form, svn cat will also follow rename history, AFAIK.

Cheers,
Raman

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Received on Tue Sep 6 07:43:55 2005