Re: How to compare working copy file with older version of that file?

>> I wonder if you have a corrupt repository, and Subversion runs into
>> trouble when it is trying to create the text of the file you're asking
>> about from its history of changes. What happens when you do "svn cat"
>> of that file, with a URL, or with a -r switch, or both?
>
> Same thing:
>
> $ svn info matrixConfig.h
> Path: matrixConfig.h
> Name: matrixConfig.h
> URL: svn://lnxdb/devicemaster/ecos/ecosapps/branches/MatrixSSL/matrixssl/src/matrixConfig.h
> Repository Root: svn://lnxdb/devicemaster
> Repository UUID: 11e97225-5210-0410-b87b-0f6ef07e6056
> Revision: 2068
> Node Kind: file
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: grante
> Last Changed Rev: 2068
> Last Changed Date: 2008-05-22 18:02:04 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008)
> Text Last Updated: 2008-05-29 15:08:32 -0500 (Thu, 29 May 2008)
> Checksum: ce78bb1e2fc3cf98c7618c054f7baed2
>
> $ svn cat -r 2057 matrixConfig.h
> svn: File not found: revision 1972, path '/ecos/ecosapps/trunk/matrixssl/src/matrixConfig.h'
>
>
><and in a different directory that's not a working copy of anything...>
>
> $ svn cat -r 2057 svn://lnxdb/devicemaster/ecos/ecosapps/branches/MatrixSSL/matrixssl/src/matrixConfig.h
> svn: File not found: revision 1972, path '/ecos/ecosapps/trunk/matrixssl/src/matrixConfig.h'

Both the branch and the file in question were added by revision
1973. Neither that branch nor the file existed in revision 1972.

I don't get why svn thinks that file should exist in the trunk
in revision 1972.

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