Hi Stefan, Thanks, this is exactly what we needed. We appreciate your help.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] Sent: Sun 5/22/2011 8:26 AM To: Dave Sailors Cc: users@subversion.apache.org; David Austin Subject: Re: How to display historic revisions after a delete On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:59:43PM -0700, Dave Sailors wrote: > When we do a svn delete on a file, it still shows up in that revision of > the directory for a svn list -r xxxx on the directory itself, but you > can't list that file by revision number directly. You get an error > message saying the file isn't in the the current revision of the > repository. > > > > Example: > > > > File > svn://srn-redhat/opt/vob/cp_vob/cp-image/trunk/sw_snmp/sw_agent/access_r > psm.c > > Was deleted in revision 5148. > > > > When we do a svn list we get the following error. > > > > svn ls -r 5145 > svn://srn-redhat/opt/vob/cp_vob/cp-image/trunk/sw_snmp/sw_agent/access_r > psm.c > > svn: File not found: revision 5148, path > '/trunk/sw_snmp/sw_agent/access_rpsm.c' > > > > This is also a problem with the Subversion diff command. > > > > Is there something else we need to do to be able to see changes between > historic versions of files that have been deleted from the repository? Yes, you need to specify a peg revision. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html Currently, the best way to find the right peg revision is to log a known parent directory that still exists in HEAD, and search for the deleted path in the output. This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply E-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
