On 2010-03-29 17:07:36 +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > I expect Vincent is asking how 'svn' interprets 'svn info > some/deep/fil...@50'. It does accept such target specifiers (at least > for some commands) but it's not clear how it does or should interpret > them.
Yes, this is what I meant. On 2010-03-29 12:31:41 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote: > I'll mention a related interpretation, which is to use the repository > URL of the parent directory and append file.c to it. > > This is a little weird, and probably only makes sense as a fallback if > the file doesn't have a URL (e.g. because it doesn't exist in the > working copy), but it would let you do things like "svn cp > deleted-f...@1000 ." This is what I seeked to do (in fact with "svn cat"). I wonder why it doesn't work. If svn is modified to make something like that work, one should also consider the case where the parent directory was renamed in a later revision. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
