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Source control features (Was: Re: delete dead feature branches?)
Quoting "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
Viewing deleted files and their history (and for SVN deleted branches are
just a special case of deleted files) is something SVN is bad at since you
do need to work out the last revision the file was present first. I hope
that any version control system we change to will make it easy again to
see the history of a deleted file (including one in a deleted directory,
or on a deleted branch) if you know its name but not exactly when it was
deleted.
While we are on the subject of SVNs shortcomings, I'd like to point out
another one: finding deleted lines. When I had shell account access to the
RCS / CVS server, I could do a straightforward regexp search on the RCS *,v
file to search the entire history of a file, and look at the vincinity of
the match to understand context and find the last revision the match
appeared in.
Although this was not an official interface of CVS / RCS, it was very
useful at times.