Revert svn file to revision

You don't have to commit anything, since you are just messing around with your working copy. If you make modifications to your working copy and try to commit, you will be told that your working copy is out-of-date, and you will need to update before you can commit. If someone else working on the same repository performs an "update", or if you check out a second working copy, it will be r However, if you "reverse merge" to an old revision, then your working copy is still based on the HEAD assuming you are up-to-date -- but you are creating a new revision to supersede the unwanted changes.

You have to commit these changes, since you are changing the repository. Once done, any updates or new working copies based on the HEAD will show r, with the contents you just committed. Update your working copy to the selected revision.

Useful if you want to have your working copy reflect a time in the past, or if there have been further commits to the repository and you want to update your working copy one step at a time. It is best to update a whole directory in your working copy, not just one file, otherwise your working copy could be inconsistent.

If you want to undo an earlier change permanently, use Revert to this revision instead. If you Update your working copy to an earlier rev, this is only affect your own working copy, after you do some change, and want to commit, you will fail,TSVN will alert you to update your WC to latest revision first If you Revert to a rev, you can commit to repository.

Update item to revision Update your working copy to the selected revision. Revert to this revision Revert to an earlier revision. If you have made several changes, and then decide that you really want to go back to how things were in revision N, this is the command you need. The changes are undone in your working copy so this operation does not affect the repository until you commit the changes.

If your working copy is in an unmodified state, after you perform this action your working copy will show as modified. If you already have local changes, this command will merge the undo changes into your working copy. What is happening internally is that Subversion performs a reverse merge of all the changes made after the selected revision, undoing the effect of those previous commits. If you simply want to see what a file or folder looked like at an earlier revision, use Update to revision or Save revision as Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 5 months ago. Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed k times. Parth Mody 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Eric Anastas Eric Anastas Add a comment. I was getting crazy until I realized that. Select the file or folder in which you need to revert the changes.

If you want to revert all changes, this should be the top level folder. You may need to use Show All or Next to show the revision s you are interested in. This will discard all changes after the selected revision. The Revert command in the context menu ignores your edits and returns the working copy to its previous state.

You may also select the desired revision other than the "Head" when you "CheckOut" from the repository. I recently found myself in a situation where I'd checked in breaking code, knowing that I couldn't update our production code to it until all the integration work had taken place in retrospect this was a bad decision, but we didn't expect to get stalled out, but other projects took precedence.

That was several months ago, and the integration has been stalled for that entire time. Along comes a requirement to change the base code and get it into production last week without the breaking change. After verifying that the new requirement doesn't break anything when using the revision before my check in, I made a copy of the working directory containing the new code.

Then I deleted everything in the working directory and checked out the revision I wanted to it. Then I deleted all the files I'd just checked out, and copied in the files from the working copy. Then I committed that change, effectively wiping out the breaking change from the repository and getting the production code in place as the head revision.

We still have the breaking change available, but it's no longer in the head revision so we can move forward to production.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 9 months ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed k times. I did not find any "findable" command to do that quickly. Peter Mortensen Ricardo Alamino Ricardo Alamino 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Select the revision you wish to revert. If you want to undo a range of revisions, select the first one and hold Shift while selecting the last one. Note that for multiple revisions, the range must be unbroken with no gaps. Lee Taylor 6, 14 14 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. Stefan Stefan I mistakenly committed the wrong change to file, for a simplified example's sake let's call it foo. How do I re-commit rev to the next commit? If I update foo.

NOTE: It's only foo. The other revisions in rev are important and I need to keep them. If you're using TortoiseSVN, this is surprisingly easy. Just view the log for that file, right click on revision and select revert to this revision this is a local operation. Then you can commit your local file as Optionally, if this occurred quite some time ago, you can select revert changes from this revision.

That will revert only the changes that occurred with that check in you'd perform this on Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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