Re: Subversion update "bug" ?

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:34:28 -0400, /Phil Pinkerton/:

> svn 1.6.5 while in a working copy I modified a file for testing.
> After testing I wanted to update the file I modified in the working
> copy to the version in the repository.
>
> the resulting update did not replace the files in the working copy as
> expected the modified file still remains.
>
> the only way I could have the update work was to delete the modified
> file then do the update.
>
> Why did svn not update the modified file ?

Svn has not updated the file because there's probably nothing to update
it with. If someone has committed a new revision of it in the meantime,
svn would update the file trying to merge both - your changes and the
new changes from the repository. What you really want is to revert the
file:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.resolve.revert
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svn.c.revert.html

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Stanimir