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RE: Backing out changes: the prefered method?

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2002-01-30 19:31:32 CET

[...]
> But to answer your question: once we fix this use-case, yes, your
> algorithm is the right way to back out changes to a file. You would
> view the log for the *one* file, determine that you want to backdate
> the file to revision N, and then do something like:
>
> svn diff -r N -r HEAD <filename> | patch
> svn commit
>
> Or you could use 'svn merge' command, which will be something
> extremely similar.

I can't remember what we defined rollback as, but if it would
look something like this:

svn rollback [<path>] [--recursive] <revision>

that would be very cool. Anyone care to refresh my memory?

Sander

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