Bingo, that works!
I'll have to read up on peg revisions.
Thanks.
David
Tommy@KE4KUG.net wrote:
> try this:
>
> svn co http://myhost/sandbox/test.bat@16
>
> I'd love to try to explain it, but the book
> (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html) will do a
> far better job than I can.
>
> HTH!
> /TOMMY
>
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:59 AM, David Rush wrote:
>
>> Hi. I'm relatively new to Subversion, but have managed to get 1.4.5
>> up and running on Win32 with
>> Apache 2.0. I can import, checkout, commit, update, and all that.
>>
>> While playing around with a test repository, I used svn delete to
>> delete an entire directory tree in
>> the repository (not in a working copy). Then I tried to recover it by
>> checking out an older
>> revision, but it doesn't work for me.
>>
>> Here's a capture of a simple test case:
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>svn import test.bat http://myhost/sandbox/test.bat -m
>> "initial import"
>> Adding test.bat
>>
>> Committed revision 16.
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>svn list http://myhost/sandbox
>> Carbon/
>> Fun/
>> test.bat
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>svn delete http://myhost/sandbox/test.bat -m "begone!"
>>
>> Committed revision 17.
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>svn list http://myhost/sandbox
>> Carbon/
>> Fun/
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>svn list http://myhost/sandbox -r 16
>> Carbon/
>> Fun/
>> test.bat
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>mkdir ..\foo5
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo4>cd ..\foo5
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo5>svn checkout -r 16 http://myhost/sandbox/test.bat
>> svn: REPORT request failed on '/sandbox/!svn/bc/17/test.bat'
>> svn: '/sandbox/!svn/bc/17/test.bat' path not found
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo5>svn cat -r 16 http://myhost/sandbox/test.bat
>> svn: REPORT request failed on '/sandbox/!svn/bc/17/test.bat'
>> svn: '/sandbox/!svn/bc/17/test.bat' path not found
>>
>> D:\tmp\foo5>svn list -r 16 http://myhost/sandbox
>> Carbon/
>> Fun/
>> test.bat
>>
>> The "list" shows it still there in revision 16 as expected, but I
>> can't seem to get it from r16.
>> Subversion seems to be looking for it in r17 even when I've told it r16.
>> Is there a way to recover the deleted file?
>> What if it was a whole directory tree?
>> Are deletes made directly to the repository permanent?
>>
>> David
>>
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