Branko Čibej wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 19:41:10 +0200: > On 01.07.2013 19:36, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Thinking about the behaviour of 'svn blame -r 50:20 file@50': > > > > Right now, if I'm not mistaken, it wants 'file@5 -r 20' to exist. Johan > > suggested it should automatically round 20 up to the oldest revision in > > which the file existed, to enable, for example, 'svn blame -r 50:0' by > > analogy to 'svn log -r 0:50'. > > > > But what if the file existed in revision 10, got deleted in revision 11, > > and resurrected (by 'svn cp file@10 file && svn ci') in r30? What > > should the end of the blame chain be --- file@r30, file@r20, or file@r10? > > I'd expect that to depend on whatever happens to be the peg revision in > the blame incantation. I can never remember what the default is in any > particular case.
The invocation is 'svn blame -r 40:20 file@50'. The file was created as ^/iota@r10, delted in r11, resurrected as ^/iota in r30, and not added/copied/deleted/removed otherwise. (It might have had text and/or prop mods at various revisions.) What is the output?
