Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:34, Jeff Bowden wrote:
>
>
>> My first instinct was to use merge
>>but when I tried it I got an obscure error message:
>>
>>
>
>This is *exactly* the recommended way to undo changes. It's discussed
>in chapter 4 of the svn book.
>
>
That's interesting because as pointed out be a previous respondent,
copying from an older version is also the recommended way resurrect dead
files (It's a "Tip" under the documentation of the copy command)
>> $ svn merge -r 178:176 https://svnserver/svn/branches/project/tmp2/dir
>>
>> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default'
>> svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read chunk size:
>> Secure connection truncated (https://svnserver)
>>
>>
>
>Truncated? Are you running a 1.0.1 server? This looks like a
>meta-problem with apache, irrelevant to merging.
>
>
subversion: 1.0.1
apache: 2.0.48
>Your command is a bit off, however. You're asking the repository to
>compare /branches/project/tmp2/dir in two different trees, and then
>apply the diff to your working copy. But that path doesn't exist in one
>of the trees! Run the merge on a path "higher up" the hierarchy, or
>even on the repository root itself. Just make sure that your
>working-copy target dir is appropriate.
>
>
But if I ran it "higher up" wouldn't it also undo other changes besides
the specific file or directory I wanted to resurrect?
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Received on Sat Mar 20 01:39:25 2004