Re: undo a commit?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> 1. undo a commit: use 'svn merge' in reverse. read chapter 4 of the
> book, section 4 in particular.

note that when you 'undo' a commit in this way, you're not actually
deleting history from the repository, but rather adding to it. [your
commit is still there in rX, reverted in r(X+1) ].

> 2. change a log message: use 'svn propedit --revprop -rN svn:log'.
> Look at the side-box of chapter 6, section 2.2.

OTOH, when you change a log message this way, the old log message is
actually replaced with the new one, no history involved.

-brian

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