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Re: [TSVN] Reverting changes

From: Peter McNab <mcnab_p_at_melbpc.org.au>
Date: 2005-10-03 00:58:00 CEST

Thomas Hruska wrote:

> For the first option, I'm referring to the ability to remove a
> revision permananetly from SVN. According to the TSVN documentation,
> only the command line administration tool can do that. It can't be
> done from TSVN.

OK. While Stefan sleeps.
Subversion currently does not provide a revision removal facility so
neither can TSVN as a GUI front-end.

> When I have used Visual SourceSafe in the past, I frequently made
> mistakes checking in. With TSVN, I'm already at revision 9 locally
> and have made a couple of errors. It would be nice to do a "revert
> changes" and then permanently remove a revision without having to use
> the command line. Obviously, a powerful feature like that would have
> to include some sort of confirmation dialog warning the user about the
> consequences.
>
There is no changing history but if you have really "got off on the
wrong foot" so to speak at such an early stage of a repository then why
not consider starting another repository with the original files and
re-tracing you efforts but without repeating the errors. Note. You
cannot svn copy files between repositories so it's just drag and drop ol
windows style but it works.

You might become better informed on purely svn issues by joining the
users or dev list for Subversion itself
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList

There have been discussions on these lists but revision removal as
distinct from say file removal is complicated by the fact there is no
programmatic way to fix up human generated log messages, tag names etc
which contain reference to revisions that might become invalid.

One other thing to be well aware of is case sensitivity. Get your
filename case right first time.

Peter

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