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Repairing SVN Working Copies

May 30th, 2008

Unfortunately an all too common problem with Subversion is accidentally deleting the .svn directory used to track changes on a working copy. The accepted solution seems to be to check out to somewhere else the directory to which .svn belongs and then copy the new .svn directory into where the working copy’s should have been.

I wrote the following bash script to automate this repair process:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "help" ]; then
  echo "Useage: svnrepair repository_dir local_dir"
  exit 1;
fi

if [ -n $1 ] || [ "$1" == "." ]; then
  repo_dir=`svn info | awk '/URL: (.*?)/ {print $2}'`
else
  repo_dir=$1
fi

if [ -n $2 ] || [ $2 == "." ]; then
  local_dir=`pwd`
else
  local_dir=$2
fi

svn co $repo_dir delme; cp -r delme/.svn $local_dir; rm -rf delme

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