How precious is .svn?

Hi

I have a dir structure like:

        project
        \__ subdirA
            \__ .svn
            \__ somefile.html
            \__ someotherfile.html
            \__ images
                \__ map.jpg
                \__ pic1.jpg
                \__ pic2.jpg
        \__ subdirB
            \__ .svn
            \__ images
                \__ map.jpg

In order to populate subdirB, which up till an hour ago was an almost
empty directory, I did a 'cp -r' of subdirA into subdirB, and the
removed subdirB/images/pic*, and I created a 'somefile.html'.

Now 'svn st' reports '!_' for the cloned but deleted images which
are referenced by the cloned but unaltered .svn directory. It's probably
also a bit confused about about the new files, which it reports as
modified.

I guess, one possible recovery is to copy the new/modified stuff out
of the WC, do an update and then move that new/modified stuff back
in and then commit.

But then I started to wonder: just how precious is .svn? (1) Do I need
to guard against this sort of slip, (2) is there a way to say to svn:
"I cocked up and corrupted .svn, so please refer to the repository
when making comparisons, instead of the .svn directories!", (3)
is there an 'official' svn-ish recovery procedure for such a slip?

Thanks!

Alexis (At repository revision 5 :-)

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Received on Sat May 4 16:48:29 2002