Better way to revert to a previous SVN revision of a file?

Question

I accidentally committed too many files to an SVN repository and changed some things I didn\'t mean to. (Sigh.) In order to revert them to their prior state, the best I coul

Answer 1

svn merge will merge revisions, not revert them. i.e. if you have some addition in your HEAD version then merge that with a previous revision, then the change will persist.

I use svn cat then redirect it into the file:

svn cat -r 851 l3toks.dtx > l3toks.dtx

Then you have the 851 content in that file and can check it back in.