There is a difference how svn cat works for deleted files. For deleted file commandline `svn cat -r xxx <full_url>` will give error, but 'svn cat <full_url>@xxx` will cat file from the past.
Unfortunately this method will not cat deleted file.
svn_cat
(PECL svn >= 0.1.0)
svn_cat — Returns the contents of a file in a repository
Description
Returns the contents of the URL repos_url to
a file in the repository, optionally at revision number
revision_no.
Parameters
-
repos_url -
String URL path to item in a repository.
-
revision_no -
Integer revision number of item to retrieve, default is the HEAD revision.
Return Values
Returns the string contents of the item from the repository on
success, and false on failure.
Examples
Example #1 Basic example
This example retrieves the contents of a file at revision 28:
<?php
$contents = svn_cat('http://www.example.com/svnroot/calc/gui.c', 28)
?>Notes
Warning
This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk.
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
Adam ¶
11 years ago
colm ¶
10 years ago
Just to add to Adam's comment, when retrieving a file contents I found I got the best results using the same revision in both places every time; ie. as follows:
<?php
svn_cat ($url.'@'.$revision, $revision);
?>
The one appended to the URL is the peg revision, and the one in the second paramer is the operative revision.
This seems to cover all the bases.
