On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:02:27AM +0100, b...@cpan.org wrote: > Dear SVN, > > You claim to record history, but you really only live in the present. > > Let me create a file and remove it: > [somewhat edited/snipped:] > $ svn checkout file:///tmp/zlonk/ > $ svn add bam > $ svn commit -m "bam: checking in" bam > Committed revision 1. > $ svn rm bam > $ svn commit -m "I don't like you anymore, bam" bam > Committed revision 2. > > Ah, memories... What did that file look like, already? > > $ svn cat -r 1 bam > svn: warning: 'bam' is not under version control > > But SVN, it was there, in your history, look!
Right, it was there, and the repository knows about it, but it is NOT there in rev. 2 of SVN's view of the world. To make SVN see it, you need to ask explicitly for it *at an older time* using a peg revision. $ svn cat file:///tmp/zlonk/b...@1 foo $ Okay, so I shortened your "bam" file a bit :) Frankly, I am a bit new to using peg revisions myself, and I am a bit surprised that this wasn't spelled simply "svn cat -r1 b...@1", but it had to have the full repo path instead. Maybe someone with a bit more peg-revision-fu could chime in and elaborate. And yes, this post might contain a snippet of what looks like UI, but I do believe that the need to give the full repo URL still keeps the post on-topic for this list :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig.
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