Thanks!
- Gary
On 2/16/05 5:09 PM, "Steve Williams" <stevewilliams@kromestudios.com> wrote:
> It's described in the Subversion book.
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.2
> 
> Essentially, use the merge command with a reverse range of revisions.
> 
> The command line version would be
> svn merge -r 53:50 filename
> 
> The TortoiseSVN version would be to select Merge, then specify 53 as the
> From revision and 50 as to To revision.
> 
> Then commit the file.
> 
> Sly
> 
> Gary Affonso wrote:
>> First off, let me say that I love TortoiseSVN.  I used subversion from the
>> command line and hated it.  Liked the server and its improvements over CVS
>> but the command line wasn't a fun way to interact with it (the server).
>> 
>> TSVN has changed all that and the two (Subversion + ToroiseSVN) absolutely
>> kick as.  So thanks to the TSVN folks for the outstanding and invaluable
>> tool.
>> 
>> Ok, now for my question...
>> 
>> I've got a file that has undergone changes over several commits.  Something
>> like:
>> 
>>   r50 - file created
>>   r51 - file changed
>>   r52 - file changed
>>   r53 - file changed
>> 
>> What I want to do is return to r50 permanently.
>> 
>> It's easy to temporarily revert to r50 (I just do an "update to" r50 on the
>> file and, voila, I get r50 back).  But that's not a permanent change since
>> any future "update" of development folder in which that file is contained
>> will just return that file back to r53 (the latest "head" of the deveopment
>> folder).
>> 
>> So my question is: how do I get r50 back and make it permanent.  In other
>> words I want to return the file-contents of r50 and then commit that
>> original pristine file back into the repository as the latest version (r54
>> in this case).
>> 
>> This seems like such a common use-case that I'm feeling like sheepish for
>> now seeing how to do this.  I tried a merge of r50 into r53 for that
>> particular file and this didn't do it either.
>> 
>> Can anybody help?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> - Gary
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