Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Niemann, Hartmut <hartmut.niem...@siemens.com > wrote:
> ** > Hello! > Our SVN server had a disk failure and some projects had to be restored > from the nightly backup. > > What happens in such a case, if my working copy is on revision 120 and the > latest revision in the restored archive is 110? > > I did some tests and it looks like subversion detects that (I used > TortoiseSVN 1.7.10 on windows using the svn core library 1.7.7). > So at least it looks like a newer working copy can not be overwritten > incidentially by the restored (older) HEAD revision. > > But how should one recover in such a situation? > Is a fresh checkout and a manual merge necessary? > > > Yes, you will need to check out fresh WCs & manually get as much of those missing 10 revisions into the repository.
