I need to find all deleted files from SVN. Then check if file needs a restoration after going through it. If yes then restore. How do I do that. I know I can restore a deleted file but that needs revision numbers.
You can use svn log --search (available since SVN 1.8) to look up the revision where the particular file was deleted and then restore it.
The following command will find revisions where MyProject/MyForm.cs file was deleted.
svn log -v --search "MyProject/MyForm.cs" --search-and "D" http://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepository
I don't see description of the new --search argument in SVNBook so including command-line help for your reference (check svn help log for more information):
If the --search option is used, log messages are displayed only if the
provided search pattern matches any of the author, date, log message
text (unless --quiet is used), or, if the --verbose option is also
provided, a changed path.
The search pattern may include "glob syntax" wildcards:
? matches any single character
* matches a sequence of arbitrary characters
[abc] matches any of the characters listed inside the brackets
If multiple --search options are provided, a log message is shown if
it matches any of the provided search patterns. If the --search-and
option is used, that option's argument is combined with the pattern
from the previous --search or --search-and option, and a log message
is shown only if it matches the combined search pattern.
If --limit is used in combination with --search, --limit restricts the
number of log messages searched, rather than restricting the output
to a particular number of matching log messages.