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Re: reverting to a previous version

From: Mark Farnell <mark.farnell_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-06-07 05:46:42 CEST

This is exactly what Iwant and of course I *want* to leave a history of
this reversal. However how would you perform this reverse merge? (i.e. what
commands?)

Thanks!

On 6/7/07, Talden <talden@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I believe you would usually perform a reverse merge over the range of
> revisions you're looking to 'remove'.
>
> This leaves a history that this has occurred of course.
>
> The only way to truly remove the commits is to dump up to the revision
> you want to keep and then produce a new repository from that dump.
>
> --
> Talden
>
> On 6/7/07, Mark Farnell <mark.farnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Suppose if I would like to permanently revert to a previous version, and
> I
> > ran:
> >
> > svn update -r<foo>
> >
> > Then if I want to make this version as the current version for future
> use
> > and I ran:
> >
> > svn commit -m <message>
> >
> > However this failed as subversion considers that I made no changes.
> >
> > How can I let subversion know that I would like to copy the specified
> > version as the newest version?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
Received on Thu Jun 7 05:47:01 2007

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