Re: BUG? svn list does NOT respect --revision 640 on a file that is deleted in revision 647

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Jon Bendtsen wrote:

> Den 18. aug 2005 kl. 15:13 skrev Ben Collins-Sussman:
>
>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> I dont know if the above is a BUG or not, but i expected a  
>>> different answer than what i've got from svn list
>>>
>>> frodo:/tmp# svn list --revision 640 --verbose http://localhost/ 
>>> data/svn/jontest/laesmig.txt
>>> svn: REPORT request failed on '/data/svn/!svn/bc/647/jontest/ 
>>> laesmig.txt'
>>> svn: '/data/svn/!svn/bc/647/jontest/laesmig.txt' path not found
>>>
>>> file laesmig.txt is deleted in revision 647 or 646.
>>>
>>> frodo:/tmp# svn list --revision 640 --verbose http://localhost/ 
>>> data/svn/jontest/t.sh
>>>     639 jbendtse        335 Aug 18 12:29 t.sh
>>> frodo:/tmp# svn list --revision 630 --verbose http://localhost/ 
>>> data/svn/jontest/t.sh
>>>     597 jbendtse        327 Aug 16 12:54 t.sh
>>>
>>>
>>> I expected svn list to give me the above line for revision 640  
>>> for the file laesmig.txt even if it was deleted since that.
>>>
>>>
>>> I searched in the issue tracker on list, and could not find  
>>> previous reports of this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Are you using a very old version of the svn client?  It sure looks  
>> like it.
>>
>
> Maybe, it is the version from debian unstable installed on debian  
> stable to get 1.2
>
> ii  subversion         1.2.0-1            advanced version control  
> system (aka. svn)
> /usr/bin/svn


Aha, this is the effect of 'peg revisions'.  When you run

    svn ls -r 640 URL

...it's equivalent to running

    svn ls -r 640 URL@HEAD

And of course, URL@HEAD doesn't exist.  So what you *should* be  
typing is

    svn ls URL@640

To learn about peg revisions, see:

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


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