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
$repos_url
[, int $revision_no
] )
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.
Notes
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.
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)
?>
