Resurrecting Deleted Items with svn cp

Pascal MALAISE malaise at magic.fr
Sun Nov 25 07:43:15 CST 2007


In fact the optimal solution to my "problem", if you want to document
it, is:
svn cat -r PREV <file>   >   <file>

No need to look for the repository URL nor for the "previous" version
number.
"Simple et de bon goût".

Regards


Pascal MALAISE wrote:
> Thank's for your answer.
> My mistake was indeed a misuse of the book (of course, the fact that I
> am relatively new to svn didn't help).
> 
> My need is very simple:
> I have made a change to a file, then committed the change, and I now
> want to "roll-back", or at least put the previous/correct/unchanged
> version of the file on the HEAD.
> 
> My mistake was to look in section "Resurrecting Deleted Items" of
> Chapter 4 instead of "Undoing Changes" of chapter 4.
> Indeed "svn merge -c -<new_vers> file", described in "Undoing Changes"
> does what I want.
> But the solution that you propose in your mail is even better:
> "svn cat -r <prev_vers> > file".
> 
> It is is indeed the simple and elegant solution to the problem but does
> not appear in the book (or did I miss it?)
> Would it be possible to add it? Where? Section "Undoing Changes" seems
> appropriate, but it is in chapter 4 on "Branching and Merging" :-(
> 
> May I suggest to add it at the end of "Commit Your Changes" of chapter
> 2. Because the mistake of "committing a whole directory, including a
> file that you didn't want to commit, then realizing and wanting to
> revert this file" is quite part of the "Basic Work Cycle", isn't it?
> This is where I would first look for the un-commit method.
> Perhaps this description could be tagged with the icon "I" as it is a
> helpfull tip.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> While we appreciate your transcript, you should really be posting this
>> stuff to the users@ list, since it's not a bug in the book so much as
>> your needing general help understanding svn.  :-)
>>
>>
>>> B: COMMANDS IN WORKING DIR -> ERRORS
>>> --------------------------
>>> svn copy -r10 \
>>>  file:///home/malaise/SVN/tmp/trunk/ParentDir/TheDir/Thefile.txt \
>>>  ./Thefile.txt
>>> svn: Path 'Thefile.txt' is not a directory
>> I believe 'svn cp' assumes the target is a directory to copy to.
>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir/TheDir $  svn copy -r10  \
>>>  file:///home/malaise/SVN/tmp/trunk/ParentDir/TheDir/Thefile.txt \
>>>  .
>>> svn: Path 'Thefile.txt' already exists
>> You can't overwrite an existing versioned file with another one.
>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir/TheDir $ rm Thefile.txt
>> You should have used 'svn rm' to remove it, not 'rm'.  subversion
>> still thinks it's under version control.
>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir/TheDir $  svn copy -r10 \
>>>  file:///home/malaise/SVN/tmp/trunk/ParentDir/TheDir/Thefile.txt \
>>>  .
>>> svn: Entry for 'Thefile.txt' exists (though the working file is missing)
>>>
>> ... which is why this command then fails.  It can't add the file when
>> it's already under version control.
>>
>>> C: COMMANDS IN PARENT DIR -> OK, BUT NOT WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK
>>> -------------------------
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir/TheDir $ cd ..
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir $  svn copy -r10 \
>>>  file:///home/malaise/SVN/tmp/trunk/ParentDir/TheDir/Thefile.txt \
>>>  .
>>> A         Thefile.txt
>>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir $ cp Thefile.txt TheDir
>> You should be using 'svn cp', not 'cp'.  Or is this really what you intended?
>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir $ svn revert Thefile.txt
>>> Reverted 'Thefile.txt'
>> OK, you've undone your schedule-addition.
>>
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir $ cd TheDir
>>> malaise at telemaque:~/tmp/ParentDir/TheDir $ svn status
>>> M      Thefile.txt
>> ... and you've overwritten the text of the versioned file.  Is this
>> what you wanted?  It's not clear to me what your goal is.  Do you
>> simply want to revert the contents of a versioned file to some older
>> version?  This technique certainly works.  An much easier (and more
>> common) method is to just do
>>
>>   svn cat -r REV URL > versionedfile
>>
>> I don't know how these results are "not what's described in the book",
>> because you're aren't quoting particular parts of the book here, nor
>> telling us what your expectations are.
>>
>>
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