diff --git a/backend/tests/redeploy_archived_script.rs b/backend/tests/redeploy_archived_script.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a530da59d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/redeploy_archived_script.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+//! Pins that a path holding no live version can be redeployed with the content it
+//! already holds in its history.
+//!
+//! A script hash is derived from (path, parent, content, metadata), so a deploy that
+//! resolves to no parent re-derives the hash of the version that started the lineage
+//! and lands on that row. `wmill sync push` walks straight into it: a locally deleted
+//! file archives the path, and the push then redeploys it unchanged.
+
+use serde_json::json;
+use sqlx::{Pool, Postgres};
+use windmill_test_utils::*;
+
+fn client() -> reqwest::Client {
+    reqwest::Client::new()
+}
+
+fn authed(builder: reqwest::RequestBuilder) -> reqwest::RequestBuilder {
+    builder.header("Authorization", "Bearer SECRET_TOKEN")
+}
+
+fn new_script(path: &str) -> serde_json::Value {
+    json!({
+        "path": path,
+        "summary": "",
+        "description": "",
+        "content": "export async function main() { return 1; }",
+        "language": "deno",
+        "schema": {
+            "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {},
+            "required": []
+        }
+    })
+}
+
+async fn create(port: u16, script: serde_json::Value) -> anyhow::Result<String> {
+    let resp = authed(client().post(format!(
+        "http://localhost:{port}/api/w/test-workspace/scripts/create?skip_if_noop=true"
+    )))
+    .json(&script)
+    .send()
+    .await?;
+    let status = resp.status();
+    let body = resp.text().await?;
+    assert_eq!(status, 201, "script create should succeed: {body}");
+    Ok(body)
+}
+
+async fn post(port: u16, route: &str) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let resp = authed(client().post(format!(
+        "http://localhost:{port}/api/w/test-workspace/{route}"
+    )))
+    .send()
+    .await?;
+    assert!(resp.status().is_success(), "{route} should succeed");
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// The live version at `path`, or `None` when the path holds none.
+async fn live_hash(port: u16, path: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Option<String>> {
+    let resp = authed(client().get(format!(
+        "http://localhost:{port}/api/w/test-workspace/scripts/get/p/{path}"
+    )))
+    .send()
+    .await?;
+    if !resp.status().is_success() {
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
+    let script: serde_json::Value = resp.json().await?;
+    Ok(Some(script["hash"].as_str().unwrap().to_string()))
+}
+
+#[sqlx::test(fixtures("base"))]
+async fn test_redeploy_unchanged_content_onto_retired_path(
+    db: Pool<Postgres>,
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    initialize_tracing().await;
+
+    let server = ApiServer::start(db.clone()).await?;
+    let port = server.addr.port();
+
+    // The CLI's own shape: it names the version it read and asks the server to re-resolve
+    // the parent, which finds nothing live once the archive landed.
+    let archived_path = "u/test-user/retired_auto_parent";
+    let v1 = create(port, new_script(archived_path)).await?;
+    post(port, &format!("scripts/archive/p/{archived_path}")).await?;
+    let mut redeploy = new_script(archived_path);
+    redeploy["parent_hash"] = json!(v1);
+    redeploy["auto_parent"] = json!(true);
+    let v2 = create(port, redeploy).await?;
+    assert_ne!(
+        v1, v2,
+        "the redeploy must be a new version, not the archived one"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        live_hash(port, archived_path).await?,
+        Some(v2),
+        "the redeployed script must be the live version at its path"
+    );
+
+    // A retried push sends no parent at all: the archived path is absent from the
+    // listing it diffed against, so it deploys as if the path were new.
+    let parentless_path = "u/test-user/retired_parentless";
+    create(port, new_script(parentless_path)).await?;
+    post(port, &format!("scripts/archive/p/{parentless_path}")).await?;
+    create(port, new_script(parentless_path)).await?;
+
+    // A deleted version keeps its row, and its hash with it.
+    let deleted_path = "u/test-user/retired_deleted";
+    let deleted = create(port, new_script(deleted_path)).await?;
+    post(port, &format!("scripts/delete/h/{deleted}")).await?;
+    create(port, new_script(deleted_path)).await?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs b/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
index 97e3019835..3d06b982af 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
@@ -1318,6 +1318,30 @@ async fn create_script_internal<'c>(
         }
     }
 
+    // A path whose versions are all archived or deleted still owns them — the rows stay —
+    // so a deploy there is the path's next version, not its first, and must carry the
+    // lineage to be hashed apart from it. Resolving to no parent instead re-derives the
+    // hash the lineage started from, which the guard below then rejects as a duplicate of
+    // a version nothing can reach. `wmill sync push` walks into exactly that: a locally
+    // deleted file archives the path, and the push redeploys it unchanged.
+    //
+    // Guarded on nothing being live at the path, so a parentless deploy onto a live one
+    // still meets the path-conflict refusal below; and on the tip having no descendant,
+    // so the linear-lineage check cannot fire on it.
+    if ns.parent_hash.is_none() && clashing_script.is_none() {
+        ns.parent_hash = sqlx::query_scalar::<_, i64>(
+            "SELECT hash FROM script s WHERE s.path = $1 AND s.workspace_id = $2 \
+             AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM script c WHERE c.workspace_id = $2 \
+                 AND c.parent_hashes[1] = s.hash) \
+             ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1",
+        )
+        .bind(&ns.path)
+        .bind(&w_id)
+        .fetch_optional(&mut *tx)
+        .await?
+        .map(ScriptHash);
+    }
+
     // Must stay below the parent resolution above: an auto_parent deploy hashed before
     // it carries a first deploy's lineage, so redeploying content the path has held
     // before collides with that archived version instead of superseding it. The