Comment 2 for bug 175520

I think the core problem here is that "log -rX..Y foo" looks in the current/basis tree for foo. It ought to look in the revision tree of Y instead. After all, if I do something like "log -r..10 README", it ought to tell me about README in that historical context, whether or not it exists now.

The --status-flags option proposed in bug 136942 could help this use case: it will tell the user what revision a file was deleted in so they then know Y if they don't already.