Hello Vinay,
> >>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:58 PM, vinay i wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Is there any command to identify whether a file actually
> >>> existed and has now
> >>> > been removed from subversion.
The question was sent quite a few days ago,
so it might be too late for the reply to be useful to you.
I'm afraid this isn't a full solution,
but some ideas that I hope might help.
[BTW, I do my work in a Windoze environment,
but use "Cygwin" for easy access to a decent shell (e.g. bash),
and command-line tools.
The grep and other programs used below are available
in Linux and Cygwin.]
All I can suggest is to run
svn log --verbose [--xml] [URL] -r[REV]:[REV] > [my_file]
On the required URL and revisions (or dates), e.g.
svn log --verbose http://repos/ -r1:HEAD > my_log.stdout.txt
It's probably best to redirect the output to a file like this,
so that you can experiment with the next bit...
Then "grep" the result; do something like this:
grep --line-number "^...D \(/.*\)\?/del_fname[.]ext$" my_log.stdout.xml
or just
grep --line-number "^...D .*del_fname[.]ext" my_log.stdout.xml
assuming you're searching for a deleted file named "del_fname.ext".
(You might need to execute
dos2unix my_log.stdout.xml
first, to make grep happier with the line ending characters.
If fact, you might prefer to run that command on a *copy* of that file.
Alternatively, use the weaker "\>" rather than "$" in the regex.)
The outputted line number(s) will allow you
to find the entry in the (probably huge) log file.
Possibly, it's better to use the --xml switch, e.g.
svn log --verbose --xml http://repos/ -r1:HEAD > my_log.stdout.xml
if you're going to analyse the result with e.g. a Python script.
Then you'll want to look for the 'action="D"' string
perhaps using (importing) e.g. Python's regex module "re" or,
much better, "action" attribute with value "D" on a "path" element
using (importing) e.g. Python's "xml.dom" module.
(It so happens that the filename and action can be on the same line.
I don't know if they always are, but that might not be guaranteed.
It would be better to use DOM than do naïve string searches;
that way, you also get easy access to the other log information
associated with the file deletion, such as the revision number,
commit comment, username, and so on.)
You may also/instead wish to use the Python bindings "pysvn".
In this way, you can find the URL and revision number of all
deleted files with a certain filename (which might not be known exactly)
below a given directory in the repository (possibly its root),
and between given revisions (possibly all) or dates.
(Given the revision number at which a file is deleted,
you can "peg" that file using that revision minus one.)
I hope this helps.
Rob.
Rob Hubbard.
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