Re: Problem with --revision option on deleted files

[Andrew Miller <aj...@psu.edu>]

You were correct about the working copy. After running svn update,  
svn cat was no longer able to print the deleted file.

I guess I should have read the whole book. The command reference  
chapter gives command syntax as svn cat TARGET[@REV] and lists the  
switch --revision (-r) REV, but does not hint that the two ways of  
specifying REV mean different things. Oh well, now I know. Thanks

-- Andrew



On Apr 30, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 17:27, Andrew Miller wrote:
>
>> I have a file, say "stuff.txt" that existed in my repository in  
>> revision 10 that was subsequently deleted in revision 11.
>>
>> If I run
>> svn cat file:///repository/stuff.txt --revision 10
>> or
>> svn cat file:///repository/stuff.txt -r 10
>> I get a message saying:
>> svn: File not found: revision 11, path 'stuff.txt'
>>
>> on the other hand running
>> svn cat file:///repository/stuff.txt@10
>> works fine and prints the content of the file stuff.txt
>>
>> Other svn subcommands, for example svn info or svn log exhibit the  
>> same behavior.
>>
>> Putting the command switches before the URL had no effect.
>
> This behavior is correct. It's the difference between the operative  
> revision and the peg revision. There's a whole chapter on this in  
> the book:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html
>
>> Running svn cat stuff.txt -r 10 on a working copy did cause the  
>> file to be printed.
>>
>> Seems like this is a bug in handling the --revision and -r options  
>> for deleted files in the repository.
>
> I was initially confused why -r 10 would have shown you revision 10  
> of the file when in the working copy. But I imagine this is because  
> your working copy is not at revision 11 yet. Try "svn up" to update  
> the working copy to revision 11. Then "svn cat stuff.txt -r 10"  
> should no longer work, which would be expected.
>
>
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