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I recently deleted a branch from our (svn) code repository. Did you know that it’s the general recommendation to delete a branch after a merge to ensure that nobody commits to it. (see svnmerge wiki for more on that advice)

Svn checkout, svn info, etc. all fail when you try to access the deleted branch immediately:

$ HOST=https://repository.com/repos_path
$ svn log --limit=3 $HOST/portal/branches/VA1-12
svn: '/svn/repos_path/!svn/bc/8881/portal/branches/VA1-12' path not found

But the interesting thing is that we need to add a so-called peg revision, denoted by the @ after the URL:

$ svn log --limit=3 $HOST/portal/branches/VA1-12@8800

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r8774 | jronn | 2009-11-23 11:30:40 +0100 (Mon, 23 Nov 2009) | 3 lines

Max height in search results (indberetninger): 34px is 2 lines for a total of max 4 lines.

Also converted spaces to tabs and removed trailing whitespace for consistency
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r8769 | jronn | 2009-11-17 17:01:25 +0100 (Tue, 17 Nov 2009) | 1 line

Horizontal train first-shot with new image files
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r8768 | jronn | 2009-11-17 17:01:21 +0100 (Tue, 17 Nov 2009) | 1 line

Removed image files having not been used for a long time
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And to recover the deleted branch (for instance by checking out a copy):

$ svn co $HOST/portal/branches/VA1-12@8800 va112

More info on peg revisions in svn book

This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 16:33 (GMT-1) and is filed under Code, Web Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.