How to commit a specific version of a file in svn?

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In a svn repository I want to commit a previous version of a file. Say, the repository is at revision 30000 and I want to commit a file code.php from revision 25000. I am not interested in revisions of this file between 25000 and 30000, I just want to commit the file code.php when it was at revision 25000.

Here is what I have done so far:

svn update -r25000 code.php
svn commit code.php

But this does not work! Neither svn st after the svn update shows anything, nor does the svn commit command. What am I missing here? How to create a revision 30001 of the repository in which just one file changed, namely code.php?

Additional information: - svn version 1.7.9

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1 Answers

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you reverse merge the file back to the old revision, then commit that:

svn merge -r HEAD:25000 code.php
svn diff code.php
svn commit code.php