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Re: [TSVN] Reverting changes (was: Created a repository...now what?)

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-10-03 11:42:15 CEST

On 10/2/05, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com> 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.

To permanently remove a file/revision, you would need 'svn
obliterate'. But that command isn't implemented (yet):
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516

Stefan

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