On 11 June 2010 22:46, BRM <bm_witness_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had accidentally deleted a folder in my repo today, which I then tried to restore in a single step copy; however, TSVN wouldn't let me.
> I think this is just UI thing - that it may need to be smarter to realize it is pulling from the history and that it can use the same at the latest revision.
>
> I ended up doing a two step - naming the copy as something else, then renaming it to what I really wanted it to be.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1. Opened the TSVN Repo Browser
> 2. Set the it to look at an older revision
> 3. Found the folder I wanted to restore, right-clicked on it and selected 'Copy to...'
> 4. The dialog that came up had the OK disabled until I set a different name in - so I appended ".restored"
>
> This restored it, but then i had to do a rename to remove the ".restored" from the name.
>
> It should be reasonable enough to expect that if you are copy from history that the URL may be the same as the source URL - or perhaps have a "restore" checkbox that can be used.
>
> Or did I do something wrong for TSVN?
I just tried this and it doesn't recover as gracefully as I would
hope. My first attempt was to use revert, but that fails for a folder.
Next I looked in the CfM dialog hoping to find something in the
context menu, like Update or Update-to-Revision, but there is nothing
there that would help.
Simon
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Received on 2010-06-12 00:04:11 CEST