[ sorry if I'm repeating; haven't read the whole thread ] Johan Corveleyn wrote on Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:05:15 +0100: > FWIW, you do have a point, Andrey (and others), that this is a valid > use case (finding the rev in which a file was deleted) which isn't > well supported by svn currently. I think the svn devs are very much > aware of this, but it just isn't there yet. See also this issue: > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3627 - FS API > support for oldest-to-youngest history traversal > > It literally mentions this use case as one of the "high-level user needs": > " - allowing 'svn log' to fully traverse the entire history of a > given versioned > object, both for completeness' sake and to facilitate (for example) > resurrection > of deleted items from their most-recently-existing forms." > > Unfortunately, according to the current plans, it might be a while > before this is implemented. On the roadmap, it is listed as being > dependent on FS-NG ("Flexible Repository Storage"), on the list of > "most wanted features": > http://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html#features-most-wanted.
Just to clarify, this doesn't mean we don't like this feature; it means a non-trivial bit of work is needed to implement it, because this question is not easily answerable given the current state/design of the backends. There are two related questions here: * Given p...@rn which exists, what is the largest rM such that p...@ri and p...@rn are the same node (no adds/replaces/deletes have occured in or above PATH) for all N≤I≤M? * What are all the (path,revision) objects that are the same line of history as a given p...@rn? In other words, what are all the places p...@rn has been copied to, and all the revisions where those copies were touched?
