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Re: [TSVN] Reverting changes

From: Simon Large <simon_at_skirridsystems.co.uk>
Date: 2005-10-03 10:43:02 CEST

Thomas Hruska wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>
>> Do you mean 'reverting changes' with 'rollbacks'? I'm not sure which
>> rollback you can't do with TSVN - AFAIK everything that's possible
>> with the CL client is also possible with TSVN.
>>
>> * The easiest way to revert changes from a specific revision (or
>> revision range) is to use the "Show Log" dialog, select the revisions,
>> right-click and choose "Revert changes from this revision".
>> * For more advanced rollbacks, you can use the Merge dialog and
>> provide the revisions/URLs there.
>>
>> Stefan
>
>
> 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. 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.

If you read the SVN doc properly, you will notice that they recommend
that only as a last resort, perhaps if you have committed a confidential
document by mistake. Neither Subversion nor TSVN makes it easy to
destroy data permanently. Just because VSS does that, doesn't mean it is
a good thing.

I am a perfectionist as well, but trying to hide mistakes by
obliterating them from the repository is not what revision control is about.

Simon

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