A project I'm working on was hosted on a svn repository at bettercodes.org. This was under another user's name and that repository is now unavailable.The person responsible for the project was sent an export from Eclipse and I had a more or less up-to-date project on my machine. I could see no other option than to commit my copy of the project to another repository. It is now possible that some of the most recent changes by another programmer are missing.Now, what options do I have to bring this project together? Is some of the necessary metadata saved on Eclipse or are all the changes on the original repository? What tools could I use to check what is missing in terms of classes, config files and code?
What options are there if an SVN repository becomes unavailable?
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What kind of project is this? Why is the repo unavailable?In the case of SVN, all the changes and diffs are in the server repository and not on the clients. You're going to somehow need to get access to the original repo if you want all the other data.Some of the distributed version control systems, like Git and Mercurial, store all the metadata on all machines using the repository. In the future, it might be a wise idea to use one of those. Or, use an SVN server under your direct control.