Re: usage of "Revert changes from this revision"?

Glenn Carr <GCarr@ConnectShip.com> wrote on 04/13/2004 12:32:39 PM:

>
> One of the exercises was to restore a set of changes to a previous
version.
> Many of them tried "Revert changes from this revision" from the revision
log
> dialog with weird and seemingly bizarre results. We had determined from
the
> docs[1] that the best way to do this was using merge. The problem was
that
> the menu item "Revert changes from this revision" was so enticing on the
rev
> log dialog. It was odd though, that we don't find any reference to
> reverting changes from a particular revision in the SVN docs.
>
> What exactly should one expect when selecting this menu item? Is there
even
> a corresponding option using svn.exe? What are some scenarios in which
it
> could be used?
>

Sounds like it would be running svn revert

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/re25.html

Not sure from your description if that is what you want to do. If you
wanted to set your working copy to a particular version from the
repository, it seems like you could use the svn switch option.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/re27.html

Mark
Received on Tue Apr 13 18:52:31 2004