Re: Troubles updating repository to a stable state

I'm not sure if I follow what you were asking, but let me describe
what I think the problem is and how I would deal with it.

1. You have a good repository.
2. User A and B check out.
3. User A does some work (which is good stuff).
4. User B does some work, mistakenly on the wrong branch, commits it.
5. User A does "svn update" (merging in B's changes) and commits the result.
6. Oops, you now have broken code.

What you want is the work of A but not that of B -- in other words,
undo step 4.

Look at the log. Suppose the commit of B was rev 123.

At the top of a working directory for your repository (trunk or the
appropriate branch), do
         svn merge -r 123:122 http://path/to/repo/trunk .
That will apply the reverse of the changes made by rev 123 -- in
effect, an "undo" of B's commit. It's possible you will get conflicts
(if so, A is likely to know, since he would have seen the analogous
conflicts during the update at step 5). If so, resolve them, then
commit the result.

You should now have what you want. This is an example of the general
"how to undo something" procedure, which Subversion makes pretty easy
this way.

     paul

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Received on Thu Jan 26 19:36:33 2006