Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 06:44:51 +0200 From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using subversion Message-ID: <CADqw_gJjEkqXswVj84QjJYjohDddKQu=jXbRpTJpmnUoqjRXwQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <24242.477.924364.935928@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <24241.62739.445872.301644@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <CADqw_gJ2PRiQSJ2xytg-A1sPe51Nu1fyrrUA_HZEJWDh%2BDp_Cw@mail.gmail.com> <24242.477.924364.935928@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Hi Robert, svn doesn't care why you want to revert (in my experience, anyway). For completeness' sake, let me add that you should not do "svn rm", just "svn revert - - depth=infinity FOO/BAR" should do the trick. HTH Michael On Wed, May 6, 2020, 02:16 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > Michael Schuster writes: > > > > Scenario: > > > I have a directory, FOO, which is the root for an svn > tree. > > > Under FOO is (directory) BAR. > > > I want to delete - as in completely remove from both > disk and the > > > svn records - BAR (and subordinate content). > > > Then I want to get a pristine copy of BAR (and > subordinate > > > content) from the repository. > > > Is this the correct process: > > > > > > root> cd FOO > > > root> svn rm BAR > > > root> svn co BAR > > > > > > ? (And if not: what is?) > > > > > I think "svn revert" is what you are looking for... > > Additional information: > There have been no deliberate changes in BAR; the contents of > the (sub-)tree seem to have been corrupted and I want to wipe things > out and start over from the same point as FOO. > Does that change the answer? > > > Respectfully, > > > Robert Huff > >
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