Re: How to revert a --record-only svn merge before a commit

On 29.10.2013 10:10, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>
> On 29/10/13 05:38, Zk W wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> We use SVN 1.6
>> How do we perform a svn merge "revert" of a revision number that is
>> --record-only in linux shell before a svn commit ?
>>
>> We perform
>> svn merge --record-only -c 1234 http://testsomething.com
>>
>> We like to revert that step.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Sincerely
>
> That only changes the svn:mergeinfo property, so I would suggest
> editing it. Since you did not have a target in the command you showed
> us I guess it was the current directory (unless you simply omitted it
> for simplicity), which I hope is the root of your WC (it should always
> be the root of your WC, it makes things much easier). So, in the root
> of your WC run this command
>
> svn pe svn:mergeinfo .
>
> and delete the info for revision 1234 (which again I guess it's not
> the real one :-)
>
> Hope this helps.

Instead of editing mergeinfo, which is always a bad idea, just revert
the directory changes:

    svn revert .

This will revert the property changes on the repository, including
svn:mergeinfo.

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