How to recover an accidentally deleted folder in a svn repository

Question

I know how to revert to a specific revision of a folder using these instructions:

http://aralbalkan.com/1381

However, I deleted the entire folder and want to get that folder back without reverting the rest of the repository.

I tried recreating the folder and then merging the changes back, but svn knows my trick and realizes it is a new folder.

How should I do this?

Solution

The easiest way is probably to svn copy the tree you want, from the revision where it last existed:

svn copy src@rev dest

See the Subversion Book for details.

Comments

[Corey Floyd]

Does that copy the revision history as well? I mean can I browse the history of files in the copied folder?