Re: [Gnu-arch-users] recovery from accidental file deletion

[Bruce Stephens]

Michael Teichgräber <address@hidden> writes:

> Mirian Crzig Lennox <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Just now I've managed to accidentally deleted my working copy of a
>> file which was part of an arch project; fortunately it had no
>> uncommitted changes.  Is there any simple way to recover just that
>> file from Arch without disturbing my other working files (since
>> several of them have modifications I don't want to lose)?
>
> You could copy it from the pristine tree:
>
>   project/tree/root$ cp `tla file-find FILENAME` FILENAME

That'll also look in your revision library, I think.  (In case you
don't have a pristine tree.)

There's a bug (#5554) with this (and the related tla library-file)
with implicitly named files.  gnubert has, I think, fixed it, and put
a patch with the bug.