Comments on: How to Roll Back Changes using Subversion

By: scott

scott — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:49:46 +0000

Thanks for the tips, but this didn’t work for me. Here’s the workaround I used that did work:

1) Get the desired version. That’s not the head version.

2) Copy the desired version outside of an svn managed local directory.

3) Update to head revision.

4) Delete all the bad files in the subfolder of the head version

5) Commit it.

4) Change the directory to the version in step 2, the non head version.

5) Delete all the .svn directories and files in the non head version.

6) Copy the non head version into the svn managedirectory.

5) Add and commit the files to SVN.

I know this is cloogy but I couldn’t get your directions to work.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:19:41 +0000

This helped me. Thanks for the arg details in the command-line example, specifically the revision syntax ( “@HEAD” and “@XXXX” ).

By: Janell

Janell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:34 +0000

Thanks for posting this up on the web. Very helpful =D

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:19:56 +0000

SmartSVN is the way to go on a Mac.

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» Fun with Subversion Geek Mama — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:36:42 +0000

[...] A frantic Google search on roll back and revert revealed that what I needed to do is merge. Jacob Wright goes into detail in his blog How to Roll Back Changes Using Subversion. [...]

By: Cory House

Cory House — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:43 +0000

Stefan’s post (the first) describes the easiest method I’m aware of, but note that if you don’t see the “revert changes from this revision” option in the context menu, it’s because you need to right click on your working copy file and select show log. If you navigate to showing the log any other way the option isn’t available.

By: Tom Artoos

Tom Artoos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:47:17 +0000

In T-SVN you can also use the merge dialog and use a revers merge. There you can specify the revs that contain the changes that need to be undone.

Right-click your work folder and select Merge in the T-SVN context menu.

Select the Merge a range of revision option
In the dialog that is displayed:
- Select the trunk in your repository
- Enter the revision (or range of revs) that you want to undo.
- Select the ‘Reverse merge’ option
- Press OK and the changes from the selected revs will be removed in your working copy.

To finalize the operation just commit your working copy to the repository again.

Hopefully this is helpful.

BTW: I’m using TortoiseSVN 1.6.1, Build 16129 – 32 Bit , 2009/04/10 08:14:05
Subversion 1.6.1

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:35:46 +0000

Thank you for a great explanation. It is definitely memorable, especially when you refer to ninjas :)

By: bryce

bryce — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:03:10 +0000

I like you explinations. It help me with many problems given other developments. Many thanks for great assistance provided.

Please continue doing this helps for many who are thanking you kindly.

–Bryce

By: swo

swo — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:01:57 +0000

Very nicely done. This has got to be one of the best explanations of subversion merge operations I have ever ran across. The author even gives the reader context *gasp*.

Well done sir.