SVN undo delete before commit

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If you delete a directory from an SVN working copy  but haven t committed yet  it s not obvious how to get it back  Google even suggests  svn undo delete before commit  as a common query when you type  svn undo d   but the search results are unhelpful   edit  I d like a solution that works in subversion 1 4 4

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The simplest solution I could find was to delete the parent directory from the working copy (with rm -rf, not svn delete), and then run svn update in the grandparent. Eg, if you deleted a/b/c, rm -rf a/b, cd a, svn up. That brings everything back. Of course, this is only a good solution if you have no other uncommitted changes in the parent directory that you want to keep.

Hopefully this page will be at the top of the results next time I google this question. It would be even better if someone suggested a cleaner method, of course.

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To make it into a one liner you can try something like   svn status   cut -d     -f 8   xargs svn revert

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Do a  recursive  Revert operation from a level above the directory you deleted

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You could remove the folder and update the parent directory before committing   rm -r some dir  svn update some dir parent

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svn revert deletedDirectory Here s the documentation for the svn revert command   EDIT If deletedDirectory was deleted using rmdir and not svn rm  you ll need to do svn update deletedDirectory instead

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1  do   svn revert   --recursive   2  parse output for errors like    Failed to revert  dir1 dir2  -- try updating instead     3  call svn up for each of error directories   svn up dir1 dir2

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What worked for me is  svn revert --depth infinity deletedDir

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