I have a revision r where a file is changed. I want to take the previous version of this file and compare it (my own compare, not SVN diff). But the previous version of the file is not in revision r-1, it could have been unchanged for many revisions, or some revisions can even be missing in the current trunk directory. Is there any way for me to get the verision of a file just before a specific revision?
I saw a very similar post at
http://www.nabble.com/How-to-show-changes-of-one-file-in-specific-revision-to21301533.html#a21365215 and
http://www.nabble.com/How-to-get-correct-path-of-file-between-revisions-to21305208.html#a21365191, but when I used the suggested solution (LogClient with ISVNLogEntryHandler) I still face the same problem: exception whenever the logclient hits a revision where the file is not changed.
In any case, is there an easier way to do this than using the logclient? I only want to find the one copy of this one file just before the specified revision; the doLog() function appears to iterate through the entire history of the file (I don't see a way to make it stop after its job is done), which is very slow for large repositories.
