annotate -rNNN for a removed file

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 1/31/2011 3:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Is the history of a file that was "bzr remove"d gone forever?
> 
> There was a file src/strftime.c in the Emacs repository, which was
> removed in revision 103037.  I wanted to "bzr annotate" it, so I typed
> 
>   bzr annotate -r103030 src/strftime.c
> 
> The result was an error message:
> 
>   bzr: ERROR: src/strftime.c is not versioned.
> 
> Do I expect too much?  Is there indeed not way of annotating a deleted
> file?
> 
> 
> 

Worst case you might try:

 bzr revert -r 103036
 bzr annotate src/strftime.c

There may be a bug in bzr about not looking up the file based on the
revision you supplied (only looking in the wt, for example). So the
above is just meant as a workaround.

John
=:->

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