Reversing a commit in svn 1.7.4

Question

I tried the usual recipe to reverse-merge an unintended commit:

svn merge -rBAD_REV:BAD_REV-1 .

and was perturbed to get, as a response, merely a message about mergeinfo. No actual revert of file content to the previous rev.

I went and did the fix up in another tree where I could use svn 1.6.x, but I ended up wondering: was it doing the right thing and not telling me, or has the recipe changed?

Answer 1

That should still be correct, but try doing it from the top level of your source tree rather than in the directory of the file. Alternatively try using the --ignore-ancestry flag to skip the warning about the mergeinfo (which shouldn't be a problem in your case unless someone happened to have created a branch from the BAD_REV revision).