Reverting a delete

One developer deleted a file (with svn delete) and committed. Now we
want that file back. I can think of two ways to do that:

1. update to the revision before the deletion, make a copy of the file,
update to HEAD, move back the file, svn add and svn commit
2. update to HEAD, reverse merge the revison that deleted the file (svn
merge -c-<rev>), svn commit

The end result is obviously the same: I will have my file back. However:
- the first method does not preserve the history of the file
- none of the methods is a cheap copy

Am I right? Is there a way to reverse that deletion, preserving the
history and with a cheap copy? In this case, I'm not too bothered about
cheap or non-cheap copies, as it's just one small file. But it would be
nice to know if it's possible it case I would need to do the same for
more and/or larger files.

Giulio
 
 
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