Re: Problem ressurectiing a project trunk

On 2004-10-26 11:45:29 +0100, David Balch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem resurecting a directory that was mistakenly deleted.
> At rev 483, the project "short-courses" is in my repository, with branches,
> tags and trunk subdirectories.
>
> Rev483:
> short-courses
> + branches
> + tags
> + trunk
>
> Somehow, the trunk got deleted in the next revision. No changes have been
> committed since then.
>
> Rev484 (HEAD):
> short-courses
> + branches
> + tags
>
> Looking at the book [0], copying the trunk from the previous revision looks
> like the way to go, but svn tells me the working copy is locked - even
> though it's a fresh checkout. Here's what happens:
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Try just doing the following:
svn cp -r 483 http://server/short-courses/trunk http://server/short-courses -m "Restoring /trunk"

Replace http://server with whatever the appropriate access method is for
your repo.

-Dominic

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