Comments on: Make old svn revision the current revision

By: David Mellor

David Mellor — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:58:26 +0000

svn cat -r old_revision myfile.php > myfile.php
svn commit myfile.php

By: Mercurial fanboy

Mercurial fanboy — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:43:50 +0000

If you’re trying to get into distributed VCS just take a look at Mercurial, it’s a lot simpler then Git and powerful enough for hardcore uses

By: m0j0

m0j0 — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:56:27 +0000

Thanks, Bill — nice to know I’m not alone

As for old directories, I actually keep a disgustingly large archive of full svn backups, so maybe that could help me out. So far, test restores of those repositories seem to pass muster.

By: Bill Mill

Bill Mill — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:38:12 +0000

> svn merge, but I guess it just didnâ€™t seem intuitive to me

You and nearly everyone else who’s ever used svn. I hope you never have to resurrect a file (or, god forbid, a directory) that you used a long time ago. Especially if you’ve ever used locks at any point ever.

By: m0j0

m0j0 — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:43:28 +0000

Thanks, everyone, for the helpful comments. I’ll now have a point of reference for when I forget how to do this next time ;-P

I had checked out svn merge, but I guess it just didn’t seem intuitive to me, but then it’s also not intuitive to me to use ‘update’ to revert back to an old version instead of, I dunno… ’svn revert’?

Live and learn. Thanks again.