Hi Everyone, On the user's list I noticed this thread; http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=2423210
which ultimately asks for, "Is there a way to find out if a file ever existed at a particular URL" The reply was, there wasn't a built-in way to accomplish this; I did find this thread; http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2003-12/0350.shtml By searching the users mail archive (grep the output of svn log -v) But it still isn't nice / user-friendly / built-in. So I have a few questions; In the sense of - I was thinking that I could contribute a little more, by producing an appropriate feature proposal - because I have personally at times wanted to do the same thing. In my case, I know the source code tree pretty well and was able to find the file I wanted by viewing through the history of the containing directory with TRAC... Anyway, Before I go and spend some decent time on writing any proposal I thought I would do a "pre" scoping project and illicit some feedback to help guide the direction of the proposal. So a few starting questions I have are; Is there a specific reason or reasons as to why this feature hasn't happened already? is it simply time/resources/money? or this is a significant technical "gotch-ya" that puts put of the realm of natural product progression? Does wc-ng better facilitate this feature to be implemented? And finally (as a start-off question) - While I understand a restricted, small-scoped proposal is a good one - I assume that the proposal should not be so restrictive as to merely look for a child of a given parent - but more-so ensure there is a capability to search the entire source tree for a matching search pattern (file/directory name)? Thanks for any thoughts. Gavin.
