Comments on: How to revert (roll back) to a previous revision with Subversion

By: Vibhor

Vibhor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:14:43 +0000

SVN sucks GIT rules.
I was “forced” to use SVN for my current project and I’ve been wasting hours trying to make things like this work rather than working.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:12:42 +0000

Though this is extremely old, I found the command

svn update -r 68

to be more to my liking. Hope this helps someone!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:42:52 +0000

While this is the first Google result if I want to revert something, it still has a minor error, so that this does not work.

The correct syntax for svn revisions is not -r:123:456 but -r 123:456

Else, thanks for the solution. It’s easier to Google this once a year when you need it than to memorize it :-)

By: Mauritz Hansen

Mauritz Hansen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:46:35 +0000

Great info, well written. Thanks!

By: Mohammad Khashashneh

Mohammad Khashashneh — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:27:46 +0000

Thanks, made my day!

By: Steven J. Garner

Steven J. Garner — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:36:42 +0000

If you get a:

svn: Syntax error in revision argument ‘:73:68′

… with the above -r:73:68 statements, then try -r 73:68 instead of -r:73:68

Another useful command in dealing with revisions is to be able to checkout a specific revision number (e.g.68):

svn co –username [username] –password [password] svn://my.repository.com/my/project/trunk@68

… or …

svn co -r 68 –username [username] –password [password] svn://my.repository.com/my/project/trunk

By: Mitch Robertson

Mitch Robertson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:57:24 +0000

Error in your code:

svn merge –dry-run -r:73:68

should be

svn merge –dry-run -r73:68

By: illo

illo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:38:08 +0000

Thanks for this hint :)

I know this post is a few years old, but there is still one thing to correct: There has to be a space after “-r”.
So it would be “svn merge -r 73:68…”

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:21:04 +0000

i think you have a syntax error.

the -r flag shouldn’t have a ‘:’ right after it.
i think it should be -r 73:68

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:39:03 +0000

If I had not found this I would have ended up trying all kinds of functions in SVN before even considering to use merge in reverse.

Thank you for the precise and to the point blog post.