Question

I have a SVN repository running on a server – to which I commit my changes.
After changes are commited, I do “svn update” on the server, in order to get my changes live.
However, sometimes I make a commit(+update) that shouldn’t be done – which means that I have live files running with errors in them.

So I want to make a “revert/undo” on my server, to go back to previous revision.
I tried:

svn update -r <current revision -1>

But that didn’t seem to do anything at all.

Here’s a link I got on IRC: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html#svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.undo

I am not sure that’s what I’m looking for, since I haven’t made a merge nor a copy?

• jack

Answer 1

You should use:

cd <your project root>
svn merge <revision>:<revision - 1> .

Then review your changes and commit.

You can also use --dry-run option to see what merge command does without actually changing a working copy.