Re: feature request: UNDO

Karl Fogel wrote:
> "Erik Volz" <erik.volz@gmail.com> writes:
>> Subversion would be a lot easier to use if there was a simple UNDO
>> command that reversed whatever your last action was.
> It's hard to know exactly what to undo. For example:
> ...
> It's quite likely that the behavior of 'svn undo'
> would be counterintuitive to a lot of users a lot of the time. Maybe
> we could find a consistent and predictable behavior, but it wouldn't
> be trivial.

svn undo would be quite tricky. But svnadmin undo could be simple:

Name: svnadmin undo — Delete the last revision

Synopsis: svnadmin undo REPOS_PATH -r REVISION

Description: Delete the head revision, as long as its number is
REVISION. If not, then return an error message and do nothing. (That's a
safety check to ensure you don't delete the wrong revision.)

I suppose this would not be too hard to implement; but that may just
reflect my ignorance of the SVN code rather than anything else. Anyway,
I think this functionality would cause more problems that it solves, as
it would give a false sense of security and encourage meddling with
repositories that man was meant to leave alone.

Cheerio,
Bennett.

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Bennett McElwee
Senior Developer
Solnet Solutions Limited
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