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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:03:31PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> --- svn-howto.txt	(revision 19349)
> +++ svn-howto.txt	(working copy)
> @@ -145,11 +152,10 @@
>  
>  9. Reverting broken commits
>  
> -  There is no Subversion equivalent of the 'cvs admin -o' command. Instead,
> -  be very careful about what you commit! If somehow you broke something,
> -  revert the changes locally and re-commit with a proper commit message.
> -  You may want to use 'svn cat -r<revision> <filename>' to inspect an older
> -  revision.
> +  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

How about

  Subversion does not support completely removing revisions. If you
  goofed up badly you can use 'svn merge' to undo changes from a
  revision locally.  Say the bad revision is 12345, then do

  svn merge -r 12345:12344 .
  svn commit

  from the root of the source dir. If in doubt, ask on the
  mplayer-dev-eng mailing list before making an even bigger mess. After
  undoing your changes in this way you can implement the proper solution
  and commit as usual.

Diego