examining history of deleted file

Question

If I delete a file in Subversion, how can I look at it\'s history and contents? If I try to do svn cat or svn log on a nonexistent file, it complai

Answer 1

In addition to Dustin's answer, if you just want to examine the contents, and not check it out, in his example you can do:

$ git show 8d4a1f^:slosh.tac

the : separates a revision and a path in that revision, effectively asking for a specific path at a specific revision.