How to recover an accidentally deleted folder in a svn repository

recovery, repository, svn

Solution

The easiest way is probably to svn copy the tree you want, from the revision where it last existed:

svn copy src@rev dest

See the Subversion Book for details.

Problem

I know how to revert to a specific revision of a folder using these instructions: http://aralbalkan.com/1381 However, I deleted the entire folder and want to get that folder back without reverting the rest of the repository. I tried recreating the folder and then merging the changes back, but svn knows my trick and realizes it is a new folder. How should I do this?

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