Question

In a project I cannot find one file. I suppose that file was deleted in some revision.

I know only the name of file. Is possible to find this file with the Tortoise SVN client?

Answer 1

If you have terminal svn client you can do something like

svn log -r <last_revision_you_know_file_existed> <deleted file>

Or you can try the following (in linux):

svn log -r 1:HEAD -v | grep D | grep -v M | grep -v A | grep <filename>

This will print complete svn operations log of a project, starting from revision1, until HEAD.
Than you filter the (D)eleted files, not interested in (M)oved or (A)dded, and finally grepping for the “filename” in the set of (D)eleted files.

You can execute similar command in PowerShell (Winboze)

svn log -r 1:HEAD -v | where {$_ -match "^   D"}

to get a list of all deleted files, than use MSOffice2011 + search I guess 😀

Hope that helps.