RE: how to make a previous repository version the actual one?

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From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]

On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Dale Worley wrote:
>
> # Delete all the files and directories from HEAD
> svn delete http://repository/root
> # Copy revision REV into HEAD.
> svn copy -r REV http://repository/root http://repository/root
>

This won't work. 'svn copy' doesn't overwrite directories. Like the
Unix 'cp' command, it creates a new directory underneath the target
directory when the target directory already exists. So in your example
above, you'd end up with http://repository/root/root.
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Well, strictly speaking, if the 'svn delete' succeeded, the directory in
question won't exist (in HEAD!), and 'svn copy' won't exhibit this behavior.
As I went on to explain, the question is if the directory in question is the
root of the repository. I haven't checked, but I expect that you can't
delete it.

Dale

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Received on Thu Feb 3 14:27:52 2005