Take the 2-minute tour ×  So... we lost our SVN repository.
Through unfortunate circumstances, we also have no viable
backup.  What to do? Just do an "svn export" from someone with
the most recent update and start over? Is there any way to
recover any history? Or connect our local checkouts to a new
server?  share|improve this question The very first thing to do
is take a lesson from it and sort out your backups. –  John
Gardeniers Sep 9 '10 at 0:13  4 Answers 4  up vote 5 down vote
accepted  If all you have is a checkout, you've got a snapshot
of the code, but no history.  You can create a new repo from
that. As to having existing checkouts connect to the new repo
after you've set it up, it's probably more trouble than it's
worth. It'll be easier to create a new repo from the oldest
checkout and then commit changes from newer checkouts as
updates.  As to recovering history, I don't see how that's
possible without a dump of the repo (via svnadmin dump) at some
point in time. Even an old dump would give you wh