I was just trying to recover some files from a subversion repository at work that were deleted a few revisions ago. Here's what happened:
update to old revision where directory jlamothe still exists:
directory jlamothe is there in revision 2444:
$ ls
cjm david jlamothe pix wgm
updated to HEAD, jlamothe got deleted in HEAD:
$ svn up
D jlamothe
Updated to revision 2477.
see, it is gone:
trying to recover:
$ svn cp -r 2444 svn+ssh://david@weatherwax/svn/repos/Docs/jlamothe . -q
svn: The URL 'svn+ssh://david@weatherwax/svn/repos/Docs/jlamothe' has a different repository root than its parent
it's there:
$ ls
Bryght D-Wave acheron cjm david jlamothe pix wgm
but it wasn't scheduled for addition? although the files beneath it were.
$ svn st
? jlamothe
M david/decomposition.tex
This had me stumped for a long time. It turns out it was the "svn: The URL 'svn+ssh://david@weatherwax/svn/repos/Docs/jlamothe' has a different repository root than its parent" that was the problem. For some reason because I used a slightly different URL (although equivalent, thanks to my /etc/hosts file) it didn't schedule it, as if it wasn't even part of this working directory...as if I had created a new working directory within another working directory.
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