Re: Reverting a delete

On Feb 6, 2008 4:23 AM, Jean-Claude Antonio <jcantonio_at_arcetis.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you want to keep history you can use:
> svn copy -r (the revision before it was deleted) url_to_path url_to_path
> Cheers,
>
>
> Giulio Troccoli a écrit :
>
> > One developer deleted a file (with svn delete) and committed. Now we
> > want that file back. I can think of two ways to do that:
> >
> > 1. update to the revision before the deletion, make a copy of the file,
> > update to HEAD, move back the file, svn add and svn commit
> > 2. update to HEAD, reverse merge the revison that deleted the file (svn
> > merge -c-<rev>), svn commit
> >
> > The end result is obviously the same: I will have my file back. However:
> > - the first method does not preserve the history of the file
> > - none of the methods is a cheap copy
> >
> > Am I right? Is there a way to reverse that deletion, preserving the
> > history and with a cheap copy? In this case, I'm not too bothered about
> > cheap or non-cheap copies, as it's just one small file. But it would be
> > nice to know if it's possible it case I would need to do the same for
> > more and/or larger files.
> >
> > Giulio
> >
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I think you'll also need a peg revision in there:

svn copy -r<rev> url_to_path@<rev> url_to_path

Where <rev> is the revision just before the delete was commited.

Troy

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