[MPlayer-dev-eng] svn policy change [RFC][PATCH]

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 04:01 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:03:31 +0200
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > +  You can revert a change by using svn copy from an old revision or by 
> > +  reversing the change locally and re-commiting with a proper commit message.
> > +  if the change was total nonsense like a policy violation or someone
> > +  commiting the wrong file then svn copy is the correct way to reverse
> 
> I'd rather prefere the svn way of reverting changes.
> Then every meta data we have stored in the repo will be as
> it should be:
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.commonuses.undo

This is equivalent to "reverse change locally and commit" (which is the
preferred way, but it seems you thought it'd differ). "svn merge" is
just one way of reversing a change locally; svn does not record any
information about merge operations so it doesn't matter for the metadata
how you achieve the local changes.