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

If you want to retain changes after a commit to be eliminated, there are
actually two methods.

One is to back out the changes from the commit you don't want, "svn
merge -r100:99 .". It retains the blame information. This probably works
best if the commit was not very complicated.

The other method is to create a branch, and re-apply the changes after the
commit you don't want, "svn cp -r 99 http://... .", "svn merge -r99:HEAD .".
This probably works best if the subsequence changes were not very
complicated.

Hmmm, for automated uses, it might be worth building one WC by each method
and then "diff -r" to see if they differ, to detect where merging did not do
the right thing.

Dale

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Received on Thu Feb 3 17:10:38 2005