After running through a lot of merges last night (I was incrementally going through several changesets to see where I'd introduced an interesting regression) and updating to the HEAD revision and fixing the bug, I got the following error message while trying to commit: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Your file or directory 'paypal.py' is probably [...]

You would think that reverting to a previous version of your application would be one of the key use cases for a version control system like Subversion and that it would be trivial to do, but it's actually not intuitive at all. When I was first starting out with Subversion, I thought there would be a [...]