How to recover a repo from working folder?

[Antti Simola]

Hi,

I am a new SVN user and I need help with recovering a repo.

I was working on a project for which I had repository located in my organizations common drive. Unluckily our IT administration managed to remove that folder altogether during some reorganisation of common drives. Trying to commit will fail as the destination folder does not exist anymore.

I have the last version of my work safe and protected, but I miss the log of what I had done earlier. Is there a way to recover it, e.g. from the working folder or are they now gone for good?

Cheers,

Antti

[Kalen Brown]

To my knowledge, GIT stores the old versions on your computer (larger file on your computer) but SVN only stores the latest (smaller file on your computer), so your old history would be lost if the repository disappears.  I remember seeing something about caching the log for offline viewing, but it wouldn't have all the old versions.