Comment 5 for bug 3632

Except I think "cat" is in the unix-like commands, which do work on the current tree, unless otherwise told.

For instance, you have "bzr mv", and "bzr ls" (though bzr ls is broken in the current version, and probably will have --recursive set by default).

It doesn't make sense to "bzr mv" an older version, true.
But it makes a lot of sense to have "bzr ls" work on the current tree. Since it has a lot of other options (potentially) available.

I don't find myself "relatively often" needing to get the last revision of a file. But that is my workflow, not yours.
You might be doing custom diffing, or somesuch, where I could see wanting the last revision to be a common occurance.
But "-r -1" isn't a whole lot to type either.