Do you use svn? How to restore files

alaios · May 19, 2011, 5:10pm

Hello guys.
I am an svn user (I am using kdesvn) and I have deleted some files. What can I do If I want to restore them back? I know that the svn server keeps all the files (even if are removed from the svn list)

Can you help me with that?

Regards
Alex

ken_yap · May 19, 2011, 5:14pm

Just do an update of that file. By default you will get HEAD, but you can specify any previous version. That is if you have not deleted the metadata in the .svn directory. If you have, then you have to checkout the project again.

alaios · May 19, 2011, 5:36pm

and what I have commited a delete file?

ken_yap · May 19, 2011, 5:59pm

Get a previous revision of course. Committing an empty file is just a change like any other, just you have changed the whole file. Even rm’ed files can be recovered, they exist in previous revisions of the repo.

alaios · May 19, 2011, 6:33pm

Great Can you explain me how to do that/

Regards
Alex

ken_yap · May 20, 2011, 12:29am

I do it from the CLI, it’s just svn update -r<revision id> <filename>. I can’t say what kdesvn offers you. Maybe read the doco?

martin_helm · May 20, 2011, 12:45am

Restore deleted items
http://kdesvn.alwins-world.de/extras/book/working-with-repositories.html#id582412