Roll back or revert entire svn repository to an older revision

Question

I messed up on my SVN repository and now need to revert the entire repository from revision 28 to 24 and don\'t want to deal with diffs or conflicts. Is there a quick and si

Answer 1

here is how I would start to do it. Brutal, yes, but its the only thing guaranteed to completely ignore collisions and keep revisions history intact.

  cd /scratchdir 
  svn co -r good svn://repository
  cd /hosed_project
  svn up -r HEAD
  cat >> /tmp/cp.sh 
  ORIG=$1
  TARG=$( echo $ORIG | sed 's/\/scratchdir\///' ); 
  cp $ORIG /hosed_project/$TARG;
  ^D
  chmod u+x /tmp/cp.sh
  find /scratchdir -not -wholename "*/.svn*" -exec /tmp/cp.sh {} \;

Note, this is not the "normal" way IMO, the normal way is to create a branch from an old version, and then merge that branch back in to the head. ( at least, that's how It used to work )

Edit: the above code is untested, do NOT run it verbatim