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

From: Reedick, Andrew <jr9445_at_ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:21:30 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reedick, Andrew
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:13 PM
> To: Kylo Ginsberg; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: 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.
>

I used the wrong filename for my test. It doesn't work. Sorry for the
spreading of false hope and the corresponding spurious spike in the
world happiness coefficient. =/

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