Major Description
repro recipe: $ rm iota $ svn revert $ svn revert iota iota is not restored. Also note that this can lead to the following. (which happened to me last night, but I caught it). $ edit iota $ svn up C ./iota $ svn diff > patchfile $ rm iota # not needed but can slip in due to habit. $ svn revert iota # doesn't do anything $ patch -p0 < patchfile patching file ./.svn/text-base/iota # patch finds only one file, so it patches that. Thus your text-base becomes your working version. While svn revert should restore missing files, perhaps files in text-base should also have '.orig' or something appended to prevent accidental patching if the file is missing. egrep also notes on IRC that this would make `find . -name "*.[ch]"' easier for things like generating TAGS files.
Original issue reported by kevin