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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: svn-fe status
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:54:58 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Shouldn't that be 'C' for copy?

Yep, that is better.

 feature copyfromrev
 ...
 C :72 "trunk/README" "branches/topic/README"

We can peek ahead to make sure

 C :72 branches/topic/README

still copies a file named ":72".

> You'll thank yourself later if you add an (optional?) mark to cat, so
> that you can cat previous versions of a file too? Doesn't svn ever
> give you a diff against -. ... never mind!

For completeness it probably does make sense to allow

 cat <dataref> <path>

too, with <dataref> pointing to a tree (as before) or to a tag or
commit.  I just suspect svn-fe would not use it.