Re: Reverting a delete

Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> 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

That's not true. The second method is still a cheap copy. You'll see that the
file is a copy of an existing file. Doing the status should show

A + filename

svn info will show the file as a copy:

$ svn info filename

Copied From URL: file:///tmp/repos/filename
Copied From Rev: 1

So doing the reverse merge is the easiest way.

Regards,
Blair

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