Thanks, Simon; that clarifies things neatly.
Michael
On 2/13/07, Simon Large <simon@skirridsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Michael Hardt wrote:
> > If I want to undo a bad commit . . .
> >
> > 1. If I go into the TortoiseSVN log , right-click on the revision I
> > want to roll back to, and choose "Revert to this Revision," Tortoise
> > updates my workspace. Then I can commit, effectively rolling back the
> > repository.
> >
> > 2. If I just go into the context menu for my working copy and choose
> > Update to Revision, Tortoise updates my workspace. Committing, however,
> > has no effect--the commit dialog tells me there have been no changes to
> > my files.
> >
> > I'm sure this difference is fundamental to SVN, but I'm missing it, and
> > perusing SVN documentation hasn't clarified it. Would anyone be willing
> > to shed some light on this?
>
> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-update.html
>
> You can only commit items which are up-to-date with respect to the
> repository. If you 'update to revision' this switches your working copy
> to an old revision state. It is not really very useful except as a
> snapshot of what the working copy looked like in a previous life. As far
> as SVN is concerned, the files are unmodified (assuming they were
> unmodified before the update-to-rev), but out of date.
>
> "Revert to this revision" does a reverse merge of all recent revisions
> into your working copy. SVN considers this to be an up-to-date working
> copy but with local changes which just happen to make it look the same
> as an earlier revision. Because it is up-to-date you are allowed to
> commit.
>
> Simon
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Received on Wed Feb 14 15:31:13 2007