I am explicitly interest in finding a more recent revision than N of a
specific resource.
svn log -r N:HEAD path-of-resource@N
It is possible to find older revision (-r N:1 path@N) and the resource must
not exist in revision one.
I think you essentially want Subversion to apply some more heuristics to the
guesswork it already does for forward-directory history searching. Like, if
PATH@HEAD doesn't exist, attempt to determine the last revision in which
PATH@LAST-REV does exist, and then use *that* for the log search. Right?
from the implementation view you might be right.
For the backward search (-r N:1) svn just outputs all relevant revision until
the resource has been added initially.
I know that it is more difficult for svn to "go forward" in history.
But it would be great if it could work the same way.
Currently the simple question "show the most recent version of the resource identified by path@N?" can not be answered (as long as it is not in head (and with the same path - but that would be even
more difficult)).
Implementing this in userland code requires to basically do a binary search between revision N and HEAD to determine until when the resource exists and then call the appropriate log command with "-r
N:X" whereas X might be anywhere between N and HEAD.
Could this feature (not actually the algorithm) be integrate into SVN so that
the user can just call svn log with a forward revision range?
Dirk
