RE: Obtaining the history of deleted files.

Hi,

I would like to raise the following issue with Subclipse. I am unsure of this is intended behaviour but the messages obtained tend me to think it is a problem.

Environment:

Windows XP
Eclipse Europa
Subclipse 1.2.4 (behaviour also seen in 1.2.1)

Note: The project was a conversion from cvs to svn using the cvs2svn scripts but all aspects of the history work and the file was removed post conversion.

Description:

If I have a copy of my project checked out of Subversion and another user deletes a file and commits that change then when I attempt the retrieve the history of the deleted file I get the following error message in the console.

    HTTP Path Not Found
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/devweb/!svn/bc/263/trunk/.cvsignore'
svn: '/svn/devweb/!svn/bc/263/trunk/.cvsignore' path not found

Revision 263 was the version where the file was removed.

If I use the  command svn info .cvsigonre then I get the history of the file.

C:Eclipse33devweb>svn log .cvsignore
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r170 | user2 | 2007-03-16 12:25:19 +0000 (Fri, 16 Mar 2007) | 2 lines

ignore my local copy of cclocal.properties, in this folder.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r97 | user1 | 2006-12-11 15:40:40 +0000 (Mon, 11 Dec 2006) | 2 lines

Added to ignore things

------------------------------------------------------------------------

From viewing various Apache access logs and trying different scenarios it appears that Subclipse attempts to retrieve all the history including that which is beyond the revision I current have checked out. The svn command line appears to take the checked out revision into account. I have not found a workaround to this problem from with eclipse at this time.

I have also witnessed this behaviour in tortoiseSVN and will be raising the issue with those developers also. IN tortoise the history of the file can be obtained for the file by reviewing the log of the directory and then using the right click feature on the files effected. This would also be a good feature for subclipse.

Thanks for a great tool and hope the following is enough information.

Steve.

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