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Re: Newbie needs help with rolling back to older revision, then commiting that revision

From: croceldon <croceldon_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:54:59 -0700 (PDT)

Stefan,

Please understand that it's not my intent to be rude; I know you guys
are trying to help and I really appreciate that. However, I'll ask
that you read the very first line of my very first post again. I am
so new at svn and Tortoise that I'm having trouble following the help
you're giving me. Again, not your fault, no intention of being rude
here. It's just that I'm so new, all the terms are unfamiliar, etc.
I realize that you're the project owner for TortoiseSVN, and you
understand this upside down and backwards, but I've only been trying
SVN for a few weeks.

I do have a question related to one of your bulleted points above:

First bullet: "do not update to that revision!" - How can I avoid
updating to the latest revision (which I'm trying to revert) if my WC
is already at that revision? Again, I'm
sure this is just terminology, but I'm confused.

Last bullet "commit" - It wouldn't let me! When I reverted changes
from versions 6 & 7, and then tried to commit, it said there were no
changes to commit! Maybe I'm working through the wrong log here, or
something? When you say "show the log for your working copy " do you
mean rclicking the WC > TortoiseSVN, Show Log? Or there another log
I'm supposed to be looking at.

Again, I've got thing up and running now. This is just for the next
time I have to revert to an older revision.

Thanks for your help.

On Jun 17, 2:34 pm, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> croceldon wrote:
> >> Also, if you use the "update" command not from the submenu but the main
> >> menu, that will always update to HEAD.
>
> > I think this was my problem. Here's what I did to make this work. I
> > made a copy of my working directory, then modified all the files the
> > way I wanted. I then updated my working directory to the latest
> > revision. Then, I copied the changed files from the copy of my
> > working directory to my actual working directory and committed from
> > there. I'm sure there's a better way, but this is the only thing I
> > could get to work.
>
> > In the future, what's the actual process I should take when I want to
> > roll back to a different version? I think I must have missed a step
> > with my initial attempt....
>
> Did you actually *read* my answers?
>
> To revert a change you've committed:
> * do not update to that revision!
> * show the log for your working copy
> * find the revision where you committed that change
> * select that revision in the log dialog
> * right-click on that revision
> * in the context menu, choose "revert changes from this revision"
> * commit
>
> Now go back to my last mails. Do you see that I've already told you
> exactly that?
> If you have problems understanding my explanations, please tell me. But
> don't just ignore my answers and ask the same questions again. Tell us
> what you don't understand in the docs or our answers. Just ignoring our
> answers as if we didn't tell you is simply rude.
>
> Stefan
>
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