Hi Mark,
We realized this morning that we lost the history...
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'll know better next
time...
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: Brian Erickson
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Undo folder delete
>
> On 10/1/07, Brian Erickson <erickson@bauercontrols.com> wrote:
> > We had a medium sized disaster here last Friday and I'm
> wondering if
> > there was a better way to recover from it...
> >
> > Our source tree has two folders in it \vme and \pcs. One
> of our users
> > accidentally deleted the \pcs folder. He doesn't remember doing an
> > svn delete but I'll just take it on faith that he did. However, I
> > couldn't think of a graceful way to recover. Here's what I did:
> >
> > Checkout revision 190 into d:\head
> > Checkout revision 189 into d:\lastgood Removed all .svn
> folders from
> > 'd:\lastgood\pcs' tree Xcopy /sdki d:\lastgood\pcs d:\head\pcs In
> > d:\head folder: svn add pcs In d:\head folder svn commit
> Now revision
> > 189 and 191 match so things seem to be okay.
> >
> > Was there a better way?
>
> Yes, there are better ways. You got your content back (which
> might be all you need) but you lost your history. This blog
> shows how you could have done this:
>
> http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2007/07/second-chances-.html
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
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