recovering the lost svn history on deleting files and adding them at a new location on the same svn server

[abhishek vaidya <ab...@yahoo.co.in>]

Hi All,
         Some time back i deleted the files in a svn folder say X and then added these files to a folder X.Y (Y is newly created). Later i realized that i have lost the history of these files of the period before this change was done. How can i merge the previous history of these files with the history after this change?
    
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Thanks
Abhishek Vaidya



      

Re: recovering the lost svn history on deleting files and adding them at a new location on the same svn server

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 15:03, abhishek vaidya
<ab...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi All,
>          Some time back i deleted the files in a svn folder say X and then
> added these files to a folder X.Y (Y is newly created). Later i realized
> that i have lost the history of these files of the period before this change
> was done. How can i merge the previous history of these files with the
> history after this change?

When you "re-added" them, Subversion considered them new objects
altogether, so they have their own history.

You can copy from an older revision to the new location, which will
preserve the history. Or perform a "reverse merge" to "undelete" the
files, then svn mv them to the correct (new) location.

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