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

From: Scott Palmer <scott.palmer_at_2connected.org>
Date: 2006-02-06 16:51:53 CET

On 5-Feb-06, at 5:34 AM, John Allen wrote:

> On Friday 03 February 2006 17:05, Scott Palmer wrote:
>> On 2-Feb-06, at 6:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Feb 3, 2006, at 00:33, Scott Palmer wrote:
>>>>>> But what happens, if the svn update can merge the file without a
>>>>>> conflict? Then I do not get the .mine and the two .rXX files. SVN
>>>>>> changed my work, and i can not go back to the file I had. Is
>>>>>> this right?
>>>>>
>>>>> NO. svn revert, that is as long as you have not done an svn
>>>>> commit.
>>>>
>>>> svn revert will undo local changes.. it won't undo the merged
>>>> changes from the update because they now match the base revision.
>>>> (right?)
>>>>
>>>> To go back you would have to know what the previous base revision
>>>> was and reverse merge the changes from the update.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Re-read the top line that I quoted. In this case the "merge" is a
>> result of an "update" action. The *update* will change the base
>> revision of the files so the only "changes" that can be reverted are
>> your own.
>>
>
> I re-read the original original post; I don't know what client this
> guy was
> using, but here is what I basically think he did.
>
> 1. commit (failed, need update)
> 2. update (created conflict)
> 3. Selected relevant option in whatever GUI tool he was using to
> replace his
> file with latest from repository.
> 4. *screwed*
>
> Sunversion does not do this. When he had a conflict, he should have
> had
> a .mine file, so he must have chosen an option in his GUI tool to
> dump his
> edits.

Right. But I was responding to the questions I quoted. In that
scenario an update that pulls in changes *without a conflict* can not
be 'undone' by 'svn revert'. That's all I'm trying to clarify.

Scott

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