Re: how to get a file copied from earlier revision to HEAD

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:21:23AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> solo turn <soloturn99@yahoo.com> writes:
> > what is the simplest way to get a file from an earlier revision to
> > HEAD again? i had to do a "svn rm --force file" to get a clear
> > working copy (the file was in repository, and on filesystem, but not
> > in the .svn).
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to do; is the file actually missing
> in the head revision tree? If so, you can just do a repos-to-repos
> copy of the file from an older revision:
>
> svn cp -rOLD_REV http://path/to/file http://path/to/new/parent
>
> This performs an immediate commit.

No need to force a commit(!). Copy it into a WC:

$ svn cp -rOLD_REV http://whatever .
$ do more work
$ svn commit -m "revive an old file"

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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