RE: How to identify revision where a file was deleted?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kylo Ginsberg [mailto:kylo.ginsberg_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:09 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: How to identify revision where a file was deleted?
>
> If I know a file existed at some revision in the past, R, and know it
> was subsequently deleted, what is the best practice for identifying
> the revision in which it was deleted?
>
> I'm aware that I can run "svn log -r<R>:HEAD" on a directory above the
> level of the deleted file and parse the log output to answer the
> question. But this is a bit cumbersome. Is there another way?
>

Peg revisions. If you know the file existed in Rev 1234, then:
svn log --limit 1 -r HEAD:1234 svn://server/repos/a/b/c/foo.java_at_1234

This worked for me in 1.4.5.

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Received on 2008-05-22 22:13:32 CEST