[issue78] hg cat does not work on files not in the working copy

New submission from Zbynek Winkler <zwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

This sequence of commands

hg init
>empty
hg add empty
hg ci
hg rm empty
hg ci
hg cat -r 0 empty

returns "empty: No such file or directory". Actually, when I recreate the file
named "empty" by running ">empty", the "hg cat" starts to work. IMO the cat
command should check for the existence of the file in the manifest of the
specified revision and not in the working copy.

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messages: 230
nosy: zw
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hg cat does not work on files not in the working copy

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