Re: accidentally deleted a .svn directory

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:45, Shaun Batterton wrote:
> For now we are using a common working copy, and someone deleted the .svn
> directory, and the files in that directory have since been modified. What would
> be the best thing to do in this situation?
>
> Example:
>
> foo/a
> foo/.svn <== missing
>
> % svn checkout $REPOS/foo foo2
> % mv foo2/.svn foo
> % rm -rf foo2
> % svn update
> % svn commit
>
> ... seems to work. Is it safe?

.svn/entries records file timestamps and such, so while it's safe, it
would probably be better to do things "the other way around":

% svn checkout $REPOS/foo foo2
% mv foo/modified-file.c foo2
(repeat for other modified files)
% rm -rf foo
% mv foo2 foo

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Received on Tue Aug 10 19:07:33 2004