RE: I can checkout a version, that should not exist !!! BUG or Feature ???

[Frank Leischnig <fr...@vialux.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:01 PM
> To: alexander.gun@exasol.com
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: I can checkout a version, that should not exist 
> !!! BUG or Feature ???
> 
> On 8/16/07, alexander.gun@exasol.com <al...@exasol.com> wrote:
> 
> >  here is a little scenario where at the end i can checkout 
> a version 
> > that should not exist.
> >  I proofed the scenaria on linux 32bit and macos, with bdb and with 
> > fsfs repository,  svn version 1.3.2 and 1.4.4
> 
> This is working as expected.  This command:
> 
> svn co -r 3 file:///$HOME/REP/D1/d22
> 
> says "Checkout the path that exists in HEAD at location
> file:///$HOME/REP/D1/d22 as it existed in r3".  Since this 
> path is a copy, it did exist in r3.  So what you checked out 
> was the location it was copied from.
> 
> If you added "@3"to end the of your URL then Subversion would 
> have given an error because the path you were checking out 
> does not exist in r3.


Dear Alexander,

Please have a look to the peg revisions topic in the subversion book, and
revise the assumption.
As Mark writes, what you encounter is the expected behaviour...

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

(BUG or feature? Feature!  ;-) )

HTH & best regards

Frank Leischnig

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