Re: Trying to revert to an older reversion

On Oct 29, 2004, at 11:44 PM, R Smith wrote:

> Hi. I'm trying to use "svn copy" to revert to an older revision of a
> directory, but I keep getting the directory I want inside the existing
> directory.

'svn copy' doesn't overwrite things. It works like the unix 'cp'
command does, when copying directories: 'svn cp A B' will create B if
it doesn't exist already. If B already exists, it will create B/A.

Use the 'svn merge' command to undo changes to a directory. See
chapter 4, "Undoing Changes".

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Received on Sat Oct 30 20:59:01 2004