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Re: Add old history to new directory

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:45:39 -0400

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 16:39, Gerard Marcel<men.makaron_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> A directory out of my repo disappeared out of thin air.  I have searched and
> I can't figure out how that happened.  I replaced the directory from a
> working copy on the server.  I need to reattach the history of the old
> directory to this new directory.  I do realize that I should have used
> svndumpfilter instead of using a copy form a working directory, but I needed
> to do it very quickly.  Does anyone have any idea as to how to do this?

Better way: Copy from the old revision. See
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.resurrect

In this case, delete what you re-added, then do the procedure outlined
above. This will keep your history intact.

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