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Reverting to a previous version with svn (rollback)

04.22.10 | pfortuny | 1 Comment

To rollback (that is, revert to a previous version) some files/dirs… using subversion, you need as Aral Balkan explains to

  • Merge the previous version
  • Commit

Like this (assumming you want to roll back from version 61 to 58):

pera $ svn merge r61:58 https://my.project.at.sourceforge/svnroot/project/dir1/src/
[... output ...]
pera $ svn ci -m "Reverted to version 58"

which is strange but works. Forget about the revert command, it has a different functionality.
You may want to run

pera $ svn merge --dry-run r61:58 ........

to check the changes which will take place before messing everything up.

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