examining history of deleted file

Question

If I delete a file in Subversion, how can I look at it\'s history and contents? If I try to do svn cat or svn log on a nonexistent file, it complai

Answer 1

Assume your file was named as ~/src/a/b/c/deleted.file

cd ~/src/a/b/c  # to the directory where you do the svn rm or svn mv command
#cd ~/src   # if you forget the correct directory, just to the root of repository
svn log -v | grep -w -B 9 deleted.file | head  # head show first 10 lines

sample output, found it at r90440

...
r90440 | user | 2017-02-03 11:55:09 +0800 (Fri, 03 Feb 2017) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
  M /src/a/b/c/foo
  M /src/a/b/c/bar
  D /src/a/b/c/deleted.file

copy it back to previous version(90439=90440-1)

svn cp URL_of_deleted.file@90439 .