Re: How to revert trunk to an earlier revision?

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:25:25 -0400, Nathan Hartman
<hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:25 AM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I update my wc to that rev I get the state I want but now I cann
>> not commit anymore...
>>
>> So how is this done? (I assume it is possible and if done via svn it
>> should also be reversible).
>
>It is reversible in the sense that no information is ever lost or
>removed from the repository.
>
>Suppose you're at revision 515 and to use Thorsten's example you want
>to "go back" to revision 497, after running:
>
>svn merge -r HEAD:497 .
>
>(followed by commit)
>
>revisions 498 through 515 are still in the repository and you can
>always access them later.
>
>See "Undoing Changes" in Chapter 4 of the Subversion Book:
>
>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.undo
>
>Nathan

Thanks!

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden