Question

I did a mistake importing in an import to some SubVersion repository, and I want to revert this import.

How can I do that?

My mistake was this: Given a folder with subfolders

a \
a \ a1
a \ b1
a \ c1

I wanted to import the folder a inside a repository folder F, so the structure in the repository be

F\a

but I imported the folders a1, b1 and c1 and the repository now is

F \ a1
F \ b1
F \ c1

I’m using Tortoise Svn, so if your instructions are in terms of that, are better.

Answer 1

svn mkdir repo-base/a
svn mv repo-base/a1 repo-base/a/
svn mv repo-base/b1 repo-base/a/
svn mv repo-base/c1 repo-base/a/

where repo-base is e.g. https://svn.my.net/svn/project/trunk/

then, when you’re done, check it out locally.

renaming files and moving whole directories is most reliably achieved by issuing the commands against remote paths in my experience.