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I am trying to figure out if we need to reduce the number of developers having svn admin rights.
1 - If a subversion user accidentally deletes and commits the delete of a file or folder, how can the file be recovered?
2 - If the subversion user has svn admin rights, does svn delete executed on the client behave differently (more permanent)?
Target: svn command line client under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2
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If you have not committed a delete operation to the repository, then use TortoiseSVN -> Revert to retrieve the file. If you have already committed the deletion: Use the log dialogue box to find out the revision of your file. Open the repository browser and switch to that revision.
To remove a file from a Subversion repository, change to the directory with its working copy and run the following command: svn delete file… Similarly, to remove a directory and all files that are in it, type: svn delete directory…
If you want to undo all changes you made in a file since the last update you need to select the file, right click to pop up the context menu and then select the command TortoiseSVN → Revert A dialog will pop up showing you the files that you've changed and can revert.
svn delete (del, remove, rm) — Delete an item from a working copy or the repository.
Yes, the deleted data can be recovered. Simply determine which revision removed the information, and "reverse-merge" the commit. Something like this:
svn merge -c -12345 working_copy_path
svn commit working_copy_path
The -12345 means "reverse-merge revision 12345".
Note that subversion itself doesn't have any concept of "administrative" users. Users either have or do not have read and/or write permissions to any given path in the repository. Also note that depending on how you access the repository, there may effectively be no authorization at all.
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