Re: Clobbering source file through merge -- can I recover?

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> If you merge, and have not committed yet, then you can svn revert those
> changes. Once the merge command is done, the edits look no different to
> Subversion than if you had made them by hand.

Well, sort of. If you have a file with local edits, and a merge makes
additional changes, svn revert on that file will mangle your local
changes along with reverting the merge changes. :/

Which is when you need to reverse-merge, instead of reverting.

-kgd

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Received on Fri Feb 3 17:45:44 2006