Re: Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

2012-11-28 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Niemann, Hartmut, am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012 um 12:42 schrieben Sie: > But how should one recover in such a situation? > Is a fresh checkout and a manual merge necessary? Yes, the missing versions between you backup and the current working copy are lost and your working copies can

Re: Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

2012-11-28 Thread Andy Levy
Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Niemann, Hartmut wrote: > ** > Hello! > Our SVN server had a disk failure and some projects had to be restored > from the nightly backup. > > What happens in such a case, if my working copy is on revision 120 and the > latest revision in the restored archive is 110?

Re: Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

2012-11-28 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Niemann, Hartmut wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:42:44 +0100: > So at least it looks like a newer working copy can not be overwritten > incidentially by the restored (older) HEAD revision. It's not that simple --- once you commit 11 revisions to the restored repository, you'll get some... intere

Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

2012-11-28 Thread Niemann, Hartmut
Hello! Our SVN server had a disk failure and some projects had to be restored from the nightly backup. What happens in such a case, if my working copy is on revision 120 and the latest revision in the restored archive is 110? I did some tests and it looks like subversion detects that (I used To