We can grep or analyse the output manually to get the revision no. Now, time to restore. Go to your working copy of that revision and give the following command. Thats it. The only thing svn wants from the user is to believe svn and to keep all the files under a svn repo with committing.
This will copy the file to the current folder. In this method, no need to get a working copy of the entire repository. We can just get the single file. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Exploring Subversion. Skip to content. Home About. Restore deleted files from svn Posted on September 16, by tshrinivasan. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Kudos to sean. Edit: We are using different versions. Also of note is that if there were multiple changes in the commit you are reverse merging, you'll want to revert those other changes once the merge is done before you commit.
If you don't, those extra changes will also be reversed. For completeness, this is what you would have found in the svn book, had you known what to look for. It's what you've discovered already:. Undoing Changes. Resurrecting Deleted Items. I always seem to use svn copy as a server operation so not sure if it works with two working paths. If you're using Tortoise SVN, you should be able to revert changes from just that revision into your working copy effectively performing a reverse-merge , then do another commit to re-add the file.
Steps to follow are:. The easiest way I have been able to restore files and not lose revision history is using SVN copy , the merge example above to me seems like a more complex way to achieve the same thing. Why is there a need to merge when you simply want to restore a revision?
If you haven't committed your changes yet, you can do a revert on the parent folder where you deleted the file or directory. If you have already committed the deleted file, then you can use the repository browser, change to the revision where the file still existed and then use the command Copy to Enter the path to your working copy as the target and the deleted file will be copied from the repository to your working copy.
You should be able to just check out the one file you want to restore. I had to do exactly this a little while ago and if I remember correctly, using the -r option to svn didn't work; I had to use the :rev syntax. Although I might have remembered it backwards Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.
Learn more. What is the correct way to restore a deleted file from SVN? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 7 years, 5 months ago. Viewed k times. I deleted a file from a repo and now want to put it back. The best I can figure out is to: update to the revision before the delete copy the files elsewhere update to head copy the files back add them commit That just smells bad and it looses all history to boot.
Improve this question. Surely tukushan's answer is the correct direct response to your question, and should be accepted?
JamesMcCormack: see the NB in his answer. A tip, if you deleted the file and have not committed the change yet, simply righ click and update will recover it. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Using Tortoise SVN you can resurrect a file that has been deleted from your working copy directory and from later SVN revisions, via a svn copy as follows: Browse to the working copy folder that previously contained the file.
Right click on the revision number just prior to the revision that deleted the file and select "Browse repository". Right click on the deleted file and select "Copy to working copy Improve this answer. This is the right way to do it. Just tried with TortoiseSVN 1. Gianluigi Zane Zanettini. Simple and effective. Thanks for the solution — Hunter. This method made it much easier for me to restore a file into a child branch which had been deleted from its parent branch.
Perhaps there was a way to do that with merge , but I didn't figure it out. In step 4, Tortoise kept complaining that the file already exists, even though I had deleted it using a Windows delete. I had to Update my working copy first. My colleague had deleted several files using the Tortoise delete, and then committed the changes.
TortoiseSVN 1. Show 4 more comments. Make sure "Merge a range of revisions" is selected, click Next In the "Revision range to merge" textbox, specify the revision that removed the file Check the "Reverse merge" checkbox, click Next Click Merge That is completely untested, however. Click "merge" commit The trick is to merge backwards. BCS Sean Bright Sean Bright k 17 17 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Tortoise has "merge" on the right-click menu. It has boxes to fill in for the rev. Also "Dry Run" to see if you've got it set right. And remember, the result doesn't count until you commit it. You can revert if it all goes haywire.
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