reverting to a previous version

[Mark Farnell <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi!

Suppose if I would like to permanently revert to a previous version, and I
ran:

svn update -r<foo>

Then if I want to make this version as the current version for future use
and I ran:

svn commit -m <message>

However this failed as subversion considers that I made no changes.

How can I let subversion know that I would like to copy the specified
version as the newest version?

Thanks!

Mark

Re: reverting to a previous version

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 20:53, Mark Farnell wrote:

> Suppose if I would like to permanently revert to a previous  
> version, and I ran:
>
> svn update -r<foo>
>
> Then if I want to make this version as the current version for  
> future use and I ran:
>
> svn commit -m <message>
>
> However this failed as subversion considers that I made no changes.

Yeah, that's not how it works.

> How can I let subversion know that I would like to copy the  
> specified version as the newest version?

You want to read the section in the book entitled Undoing Changes:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/ 
svn.branchmerge.commonuses.html#svn.branchmerge.commonuses.undo


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Re: reverting to a previous version

[Hari Kodungallur <hk...@gmail.com>]

On 6/6/07, Mark Farnell <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is exactly what Iwant and of course I *want*  to leave a history of
> this reversal.  However how would you perform this reverse merge? (i.e.
> what commands?)
>
> Thanks!


Suppose you want to revert everything that happened between revision N and
HEAD (including changes made to N) of file foo.

-> svn co <directory containing foo>    (checking out HEAD)
-> svn merge -rHEAD:N-1 foo
    -> hopefully there is no conflict.. if there is, resolve conflict
-> svn ci foo -m "reverting changes from rev N through M for foo"


regards,
-Hari Kodungallur

Re: reverting to a previous version

[Mark Farnell <ma...@gmail.com>]

This is exactly what Iwant and of course I *want*  to leave a history of
this reversal.  However how would you perform this reverse merge? (i.e. what
commands?)

Thanks!

On 6/7/07, Talden <ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I believe you would usually perform a reverse merge over the range of
> revisions you're looking to 'remove'.
>
> This leaves a history that this has occurred of course.
>
> The only way to truly remove the commits is to dump up to the revision
> you want to keep and then produce a new repository from that dump.
>
> --
> Talden
>
> On 6/7/07, Mark Farnell <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Suppose if I would like to permanently revert to a previous version, and
> I
> > ran:
> >
> > svn update -r<foo>
> >
> > Then if I want to make this version as the current version for future
> use
> > and I ran:
> >
> >  svn commit -m <message>
> >
> > However this failed as subversion considers that I made no changes.
> >
> > How can I let subversion know that I would like to copy the specified
> > version as the newest version?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
>

Re: reverting to a previous version

[Talden <ta...@gmail.com>]

I believe you would usually perform a reverse merge over the range of
revisions you're looking to 'remove'.

This leaves a history that this has occurred of course.

The only way to truly remove the commits is to dump up to the revision
you want to keep and then produce a new repository from that dump.

--
Talden

On 6/7/07, Mark Farnell <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Suppose if I would like to permanently revert to a previous version, and I
> ran:
>
> svn update -r<foo>
>
> Then if I want to make this version as the current version for future use
> and I ran:
>
>  svn commit -m <message>
>
> However this failed as subversion considers that I made no changes.
>
> How can I let subversion know that I would like to copy the specified
> version as the newest version?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>

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