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Re: strange behavior, history lost

From: Tyler Roscoe <tyler_at_cryptio.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:33:25 -0700

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 03:57:03PM -0500, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> I was able to recover the file history by first removing the "new" version
> and then doing an "svn copy" between to different local copies, one checked
> out with "-r 1763". I couldn't figure out a more direct method.

Doing a reverse merge ought to resurrect the file correctly:

svn merge -rHEAD:1763 /path/to/file

The way you've done it clobbers the history of that file (as you already
discovered). Glad you got it working though.

tyler
Received on 2009-04-01 07:34:11 CEST

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