Re: Reverting changes from merged revisions

On 08.03.2011 16:17, Josha wrote:
> I am having a problem running "Revert changes from this revision" on a
> merged revision with TSVN 1.6.13.
>
> So, for example in TSVN, on the 1.6.x branch, follow these steps:
>
> 1. Open up the log dialog from a WC.
> 2. Check "Include merged revisions".
> 3. Scroll down to revision 20347, it is under 20441.
> 4. Right click on 20347 and select "Revert changes from this
> revision".
> 5. Click Yes.
>
> The output is this:
> Command: Merging revisions 20347-20346 of http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1.6.x
> into C:\Temp\TSVN, respecting ancestry
> C:\Temp\TSVN
> Finished!
>
> No changes are merged. I assume it is because the changes were on
> trunk and it is trying to merge changes from the branch.

You can only revert changes in the log dialog that were actually applied
to the wc. The 'merged revisions' that are shown are not applied but
only referenced.
To do such a revert, you'd have to revert revision 20441 instead.

> Hmm, it looks like if I use the Merge dialog and select the revision
> directly from trunk, the reverse merge option works. Is there any way
> to make "Revert changes from this revision" work in this situation?
> It would be a lot easier that way.

That merge 'knows' the source of the merge (the trunk url) so it works.

Stefan

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