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I've accidentally overwritten an old branch by copying trunk over it using 'svn copy'. More specifically, for every release, trunk is branched and kept as a tag, using:
svn copy svn://machine/REPOS/trunk svn://machine/REPOS/tags/$RELEASENR
But this time the value of 'RELEASENR' was that of an old existing branch instead of a new one. Anybody have any ideas on how to undo this mistake? Thanks already!
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Reverts any local changes to a file or directory and resolves any conflicted states. svn revert will revert not only the contents of an item in your working copy, but also any property changes.
To undo a specific revision you can use the following command: $ svn merge -c -r3745 . In case you have other edited files in working directory, you can commit only the relevant files. Please note that undoing actually will mean you create a new revision with the negatives changes of last commit.
Subversion doesn't work that way. You haven't actually overwritten it. If the target of the copy or a move exists and is a directory, then the copied or moved item is placed in that directory:
svn copy svn://machine/REPOS/trunk svn://machine/REPOS/tags/EXISTS_ALREADY
If you look, you should find:
svn://machine/REPOS/tags/EXISTS_ALREADY/trunk
Which is a copy of the trunk you just tried to tag. The fix in this case is easy:
svn mv svn://machine/REPOS/tags/EXISTS_ALREADY/trunk \
svn://machine/REPOS/tags/CORRECT_TAG_NAME
(In case you're not *nix conversant: The \ means I've broken one logical line into two physical lines to spare your horizontal scrollbar from overwork.)
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