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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:43:16+00:00

Someone at my work moved a folder to a different location. But he didn’t

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Someone at my work moved a folder to a different location. But he didn’t do a proper SVN move, he just added them as new files and deleted the old files. This of course meant the history of items are wrong. I was away at the time and several edits have happened on the files since, so reverting the revisions and redoing the operation myself is out.

Is there a way I can fix this up so SVN becomes aware of their full history?

P.S. I use tortoiseSVN.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is not possible to edit the content of the history of a Subversion repository. You must either:

    1. rebuild the repository starting from the pre-mistake revision, committing a correct move, and then committing the revisions from after that. This requires everyone to get new working copies, or rewind them (svn update -rN) to before the revisions that are going to be replaced.
    2. Delete the moved folder, recreate it as a copy of the old folder (svn copy <url of old dir>@<old rev> <new name in wc>), then use svn merge to reapply the changes since then to the new copy of the old-location folder.
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