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Re: Best Practices Advice Wanted

From: Benjamin Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:42:03 +0100

On Mar 21, 2008, at 20:45, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "Troy" == Troy Bull <troy.bull_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
> Troy> Greetings I have a particular use case that I would be
> Troy> interested in knowing if I am doing it correctly.
>
> Troy> I have a repo with a folder. This folder contains a bunch of
> Troy> folders and files. Someone deletes one of the folders, then
> Troy> commits a bunch of changes to the other things. Then she calls
> Troy> me and says, I didnt mean to delete that folder. What I did
> Troy> was go back to the last revision it appeared (one prior to the
> Troy> delete), and did an svn copy back into where it belongs. Is
> Troy> there a better way?
>
> "svn merge" is a nice way to undo things.
>
> paul

It may not be possible to reverse just the deletion with svn merge
without losing her other changes, though that could be compensated for
with some clever use of svn revert after merging.

Tory's solution is what I would have done as well in this *particular*
situation, though I'm not shy about using merge.

// Ben Smith-Mannschott

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