On Oct 9, 2011, at 08:32, Geoff Hoffman wrote:

>> If you do it that way, it will appear to Subversion (and yourself later, 
>> when you review the history) as though you created the directory an all its 
>> contents in revision 11. It will be completely disconnected from its 
>> previous history in the repository. "svn log" on this new directory will 
>> only go back to revision 11. "svn blame" will show it was created in 
>> revision 11. This is probably not what you want. You probably want to bring 
>> the directory back from the past, linked with all its prior history.
>> 
>> To do that, instead copy it from its prior repository location with svn cp:
>> 
>> cd /path/to/workingcopy/gnwd/notes/svn
>> svn cp https://pl3.projectlocker.com/gnwd/notes/svn/a_dir@9 .
>> # test, test, test
>> svn ci -m "resurrecting a_dir from revision 9"
> 
> Ryan, your way is better. I thought that would create commit conflicts 
> though. It doesn't?

How do you mean?

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