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

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.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:03:52 +0000

Thanks for this post, it’s indeed quite weird to use the merge for this, but it works fine!

Little syntax error: remove the ‘:’ after the -r, it should just be a space.

By: Tolga AKIN

Tolga AKIN — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:28 +0000

Thank you for the nice article, but I do believe there is a typo in it. It should be “-r 73:68″, not “-r:73:68″.

By: ionut

ionut — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:58:19 +0000

btw didn’t see the comments on the right, thought there were no comments :)

By: ionut

ionut — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:57:01 +0000

i think the correct command is
svn merge -r 73:68 http://my.repository.com/my/project/trunk

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:33:27 +0000

Thanks, saves me time figuring out how to do just this…

However, at least on my version of SVN, the “-r” command should look like “-r 73:68″ not “-r:73:68″

By: Shankari

Shankari — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:36:16 +0000

Great !. Very good explanation. Thanks.
( A small correction in the following line
“svn merge –dry-run -r:73:68″
I think the “:” will not follow “-r” )