On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 23:02, Pat Farrell <pfarr...@pfarrell.com> wrote: > One of my developers did a > svn rm foo.java > command, and committed it. He meant well, but it was not a good idea. > > I could retrieve the file from the repository with > > svn update foo.java -r 1234 > > which would retrieve an older copy. svn would display a "A" with the file. > > but svn status > showed nothing. Nothing to commit. > > and a subsequent > svn update > would delete the file again. > > What is the proper sequence of commands to get the file back and insert > it back into the repository? I'd rather that the deletion be vanished, > but if that is hard, what it the proper way to get it back and add it > back to the stream of revisions?
You want a "reverse merge" - essentially undoing what was done. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.resurrect
