How to get a file by date in a branch?

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:04, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Andras Mantia wrote:
> >That's really sad. In this case I know that the code is in trunk, but
> >what happens if I don't know from where it was branched?
>
> svn log -v --stop-on-copy dirname
>
> The log will tell you where the copy came from.

Yes, but why has the human user to do this? Can the computer not do it alone?

(That is what I meant that the current tools could not handle all data 
available.)

Have a nice day!