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RE: How to find out the rev number where a file was deleted?

From: Edward Ned Harvey <svn_at_nedharvey.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:56:16 -0500

> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell_at_gmail.com]
>
> I think a delete doesn't appear in a file's history - the file just no
longer
> appears in subsequent revisions. However a delete is a change in the
> containing
> directory. Does 'svn log -v' on the directory above show the changes in
the
> way
> they happened?

Right, the age-old point, "rm isn't a file operation. It's an operation on
the directory that contains the file." This seems to suggest the answer to
Paul's question is ... You can't svn log a file and find the rev where the
file was deleted. This is confirmed below ... but it still doesn't explain
the weird behavior...

Still, this should at least produce some results: (as long as foo existed
in rev 3)
        svn log -r 0:head file://${HOME}/trash/repo/foo_at_3
        svn: File not found: revision 5, path '/foo'
It makes no sense for svn to complain about what's in rev 5. My query
doesn't care about rev 5.

Important to note below ... The rev where the file was deleted is not shown.
This confirms "rm is not a file operation." And this does work, as long as
the file was resurrected with the same name:

svn log -r 0:head file://${HOME}/trash/repo/foo_at_3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1 | root | 2010-11-27 08:12:20 -0500 (Sat, 27 Nov 2010) | 1 line

added
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r2 | root | 2010-11-27 08:12:32 -0500 (Sat, 27 Nov 2010) | 1 line

changed a
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r3 | root | 2010-11-27 08:12:45 -0500 (Sat, 27 Nov 2010) | 1 line

changed b
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r5 | root | 2010-11-27 08:27:33 -0500 (Sat, 27 Nov 2010) | 1 line

resurected and renamed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r6 | root | 2010-11-27 08:28:44 -0500 (Sat, 27 Nov 2010) | 1 line

renamed back to original
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Received on 2010-11-27 21:57:02 CET

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