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RE: How to get info on a deleted file?

From: Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) <wadswore_at_fhu.disa.mil>
Date: 2003-08-15 16:59:38 CEST

Someone may have answered this already, but I just answered a co-workers
question on this very topic. Here is what I told her:

Karen,

In response to your question, I've figured out how to inspect a single
file that has been deleted in subversion.

d:
cd \tget\documentation
svn log help --verbose
[verbose listing of files is displayed, including the deleted one]
svn cat
http://tgetsun/svn/repos/tget_3.0.1/trunk/documentation/help/tget_help.c
ss -r219 > help\tget_help.css

That revision number, 219, was learned by reading the output of the log
command. This command will recreate the text file. If it were a binary
file, it would be better to check out a new working copy of just this
section somewhere, of the specific version we want (219):

d:
cd \
svn co http://tgetsun/svn/repos/tget_3.0.1/trunk/documentation/help
-r219 \tget_help_r219

That would bring everything back in that directory, as of version 219.

> Greetings,
>
> If I'm interested in viewing and/or restoring a file that I've deleted
> from my repository, how do I get it back? I realize that I
> can grab it
> by revision number or date if I have that information, but what if I
> don't? Is there any way to determine the last revision in which a
> deleted file appeared?
>
> What I expected to be able to do was a 'svn log deletedfile'
> and/or 'svn
> status deletedfile' but neither of these seem to work. Doesn't that
> sort of thing work in CVS? Isn't SVN supposed to do at least
> everything
> that CVS can do? This missing functionality seems like a flaw in SVN.
> Or is there a "better" way I don't know about?
>
> TIA for any help.
>
> Steve Johnson
> DigitalFish Films
>
>
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