Comments on: Recover a deleted file in Subversion

By: Shiv

Shiv — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:04:55 +0000

Do you happen to know if there’s a difference between doing it the way you proposed versus using TortoiseSVN right-click feature as mentioned here?

http://tortoisesvn.net/most-forgotten-feature

I tried the TSVN way, and it seemed to work for me. That is, all of the log history is still retained.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:01:46 +0000

Sorry, but that last post got scrambled; blame it on careless use of angle brackets.
Hopefully, this version of the command will come through unscathed:

svn copy -rrevision_number_where_deleted http://svn_machine_name/svn_repository_path/README .

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:56:52 +0000

I was not able to use the @revision syntax, but -r worked just fine.

The following command restored a deleted README file (with log entries back to 1993!) in my current working directory:

svn copy -r http:////README .

– Thanks for the help!

By: Clifton

Clifton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:26:46 +0000

Your forgot a hyphen in the svn log command:

svn log –verbose

Thanks!

By: Tarun

Tarun — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:36:28 +0000

If you are giving the repository url, the -r or –revision parameter doesnt work.

instead specify the old revision by appending @revision-number to end of the old file url.

svn copy svn://repo-path/file-path@old-revision-number relative-path-to-new-location

example -

cd working-copy/mydir
svn copy svn://www.example.com/myproject/mydir/myfile@21 .

will copy the the file ‘myfile’ from revision 21 into the current directory.