Finding or viewing a deleted file in SubVersion (SVN)
Yes it does happen that sometimes a file is deleted either inadvertently or on purpose and you either need to get it back or you just want to see what was there.
Since I keep forgetting on how to do this I thought I’d write it down.
The first step to recovering the file is to find the version in which it existed; to do so either go go to the directory it was in (or as close as you can get to the directory it was in) and run:
svn log –verbose
Note the revision of the file you are looking for.
If you want to restore your file to your current source tree then issue an
svn up -r [revision number] filename
If you just want to look at it then just go to any temporary folder and issue an
svn export -r [revision number] repository path (in the form of http://../filename)
Not that for the export notation you could use the parent folder name to get all the files in that folder at the same time.