On Feb 6, 2008 9:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 21:42, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
>
> > On Feb 6, 2008 4:23 AM, Jean-Claude Antonio wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> If you want to keep history you can use:
> >> svn copy -r (the revision before it was deleted) url_to_path
> >> url_to_path
> >
> > 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.
>
> You'd think so, but svn copy doesn't support peg revisions until
> Subversion 1.5.0.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2546
>
>
>
>
Craziness! So does it work without peg revisions as Jean-Claude says?
It seems to go against everything else! How strange!
Troy
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