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How can I get all the versions of a given file?

Answer 1

+2 A:

there is no command out of the box but you can build simple script that uses log -q command output.

zerkms@honeypot /var/www/cv $ svn log -q index.html
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r17 | zerkms | 2010-04-21 21:47:16 +1100 (Wed, 21 Apr 2010)
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r16 | zerkms | 2010-04-21 21:37:03 +1100 (Wed, 21 Apr 2010)
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r15 | zerkms | 2010-04-21 21:36:46 +1100 (Wed, 21 Apr 2010)
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r14 | zerkms | 2010-04-21 21:32:37 +1100 (Wed, 21 Apr 2010)
... etc

so you just need to parse first column in your favorite scripting language

after this just do:

svn copy http://server/full/path/to/file@14 file.rev.14

etc, for each revision and you will get bunch of file.rev.XX

zerkms 2010-05-15 14:30:31

Answer 2

+2 A:

Right click with mouse on the selected file ThirdPartyAssembly.dll in your working copy on your HD, and a popup menu appears.
From the popup menu choose on TortoiseSVN > Show log, and a window appears
The window contains the list of ALL the checked in versions of your file
RIGHT click mouse on the one that you want, a pop up menu appears.
Form the popup menu choose "Save revision to..." and you can save it on your HD wherever you like.

Marco Demajo 2010-05-15 14:31:55

I have 98 revisions of that file, is there a way to have a batch file doing that?

Martin 2010-05-15 14:36:55

Thanks Marco! It's a good solution, but the "Save revision to..." isn't available when I select more than one revision.

Martin 2010-05-15 14:40:33

@Martin: "I have 98 revisions..." I didn't know that, you were talking about 3/4 revisions in your question. I don't know then.

Marco Demajo 2010-05-15 14:50:14

@Marco: I still like your solution! :) I will try to script it, otherwise I might do that one by one... :S

Martin 2010-05-15 14:53:01

@Martin: isn't it more simple to script the CLI instead of GUI? :-S

zerkms 2010-05-15 15:00:06

@zerkms: if it's not a long script could you write it out, I'm interested too. How do I call that script than from normal command Windows' shell? Thanks!

Marco Demajo 2010-05-15 16:52:45

@Marco: i told about any scripting language that you have on the host system that you use: bash, bat, python, php, perl... i propose to use anything you OP has and anything he know how to program, but basing on CLI out (`svn log -q file`)

zerkms 2010-05-16 03:19:20

@zerkms: sorry, i'm very ignorant in this subject. But is this command to be called on my local PC or it ha s to be called on the server hosting the repository? I downloaded TortoiseSVN, but I cant' find any svn.exe command on my machine.

Marco Demajo 2010-05-16 09:16:54

tortoisesvn is exclusively GUI tool. it's sexy, but it's GUI. so you need to download SVN which contains command line tool svn.exe. in my answer i put sample output

zerkms 2010-05-16 12:22:27

@zerkms: thanks I +1 your answer.

Marco Demajo 2010-05-17 11:17:21

Answer 3

A:

You could just run a diff command on each version to get CVS to generate copies of the old files. You could probably even script this if there are a lot of old revisions.

But that said, what exactly are you really trying to do here? Maybe there is a better way?

Justin Ethier 2010-05-15 14:32:01

I am exactly trying to do what I said in the question. I need to get all the versions of a file (binary) on my machine. Thanks! :)

Martin 2010-05-15 14:38:14

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