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Re: How to "un-checkout" from svn

From: Matthew Hannigan <mlh_at_zip.com.au>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:37:05 +1100

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:51:16PM +0100, Martin Bischoff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Javier Alvarado <quijotista_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > What I want is a clean way to tell svn "forget I ever checked these out"
> >
>
>
> If I understand correctly, you are looking for the "revert" command (at
> least that's what it's called in TortoiseSVN).
> Revert will simply overwrite you local file with the latest revision from
> the repository - and thus undo all changes you have made locally.

Yeah, it's unclear what the OP wants.
I thought it sounded like he wanted update to a previous version.

    svn up -r<some-oldversion>

But it sounds like it's being used as a deployment tool /
distributed filesystem not a version control system.

Which is a surprisingly common use of svn.

Matt

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