Re: Support for undelete from history?

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
> >> I tried a reverse merge:
> >> svn -r 218:217 <parentdir>
> >> and it looked like it was going to work. But unfortunately, in the same
> >> commit, I not only removed the directory by I also removed two files in that
> >> directory. The reverse merge looks like it'll work to add-back the
> >> directory, but I get 404 errors when svn tries to effectively reverse the
> >> file delete via an add b/c these files don't esit on the server.
> >
> > Hmm, that appears to be an ra_dav bug.
>
> I see now that this is issue 1370.

Yes, we're still looking at this bug.

But for the record, the simplest way to "restore" a deleted object is
to just use 'svn cp -r oldrev URL wc'. This sucks down the deleted
item into the working copy and schedules it for addition-with-history.

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Received on Tue Jul 1 18:01:43 2003