I managed to shoot myself in the foot this morning by doing the following:
Fortunately in this case I had done an "svn diff > temp.txt" before leaving work on Friday, and the temp.txt file was still on my hard drive, so I was able to feed that file into "patch" and recover my lost changes.
But for my future reference (i.e. the next time I make the same dumb mistake)... is there any way to tell svn to undo an "svn revert"? Does svn keep a backup of the local/not-checked-in diffs anywhere?
No, (absolutely) NO.
If you say to Subversion it should revert a file, all changes are gone by the wind.
Only your memory can get them back.
Exception: New files you had added, will only lose their status "added", but the file will remain in this directory, only status is unknown("?")
Platform / Software exception: Using TortoiseSVN on Windows, Revert first throws the files into Recycle Bin and then reverts them. You can dig into the Recycle Bin to recover the files.