[SVN-3830] improve svn log with "forward" revision range

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 1.10-consider
• Component/s: libsvn_client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 08/Mar/11 23:28
• Updated: 19/Feb/15 14:57

Description

Currently the command 'svn log -rX:Y PATH@PEG' where X > Y and Y > PEG fails
when PATH@Y doesn't exist.

(For backward revision ranges like Y=1, Y < X and Y < PEG it works as expected,
listing all revisions until creation of specific path.)

As an enhancement to svn log the Y value should be automatically substituted
with the last revision in which PATH@THAT-REV *did* exist, and continue the
operation (as suggested on the mailinglist by C. Michael Pilato).

Hopefully this can be integrated in the near future. Preferably for the next
minor release (1.7) or, if complexity and possible side-effects are low, also in
an upcoming patch release?

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201103.mbox/[e-mail]%3E

Original issue reported by dirkthomas