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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Tyler Roscoe <ty...@cryptio.net> on 2009/04/01 05:33:25 UTC

Re: strange behavior, history lost

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 03:57:03PM -0500, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> I was able to recover the file history by first removing the "new" version
> and then doing an "svn copy" between to different local copies, one checked
> out with "-r 1763".   I couldn't figure out a more direct method.

Doing a reverse merge ought to resurrect the file correctly:

svn merge -rHEAD:1763 /path/to/file

The way you've done it clobbers the history of that file (as you already
discovered). Glad you got it working though.

tyler