How to “undelete” a deleted folder in Subversion / TortoiseSVN?

Question

We have accidentally deleted the \'tags\' folder from our Subversion repository where we only intended to delete one specific tag. What is the easiest way to get the \'tags\

Answer 1

for the command line enthusiasts:

• first find the revision number where your delete happened:

  svn log -v http://svnserver/path/to/folderContainingDeletedFolder
  

say you find that the directory was deleted in revision 999 (btw: you might find it easier to find the revision number with the svn repo browser)

• copy the folder from revision minus 1

  svn copy http://svnserver/path/to/folderContainingDeletedFolder/deletedFolder@998 http://svnserver/path/to/folderContainingDeletedFolder/deletedFolder -m "undeleted folder"
  

voilà you're done!

in your case this might be:

    svn copy http://svnserver/project/tags@998 http://svnserver/project/tags -m "undeleted folder"