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

If you don't know the path to the deleted file, turns out you can search for it in the otherwise all-too-heavy svn log command:

svn log --search  -v

The command is probably hammering the server just as much as it would without the search option, but at least the rest of involved resources (including your eyeballs) would be kinda relieved, since that will tell you in which revision that file was deleted. Then, you can follow the other tips (mainly using the same svn log command, but already on a defined path).