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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:01:11AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:03:31 +0200
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> 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
> 
> 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

Ah, that's exactly what I was remembering in the back of my head.  Here
is a slightly more convenient link to the split HTML pages:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.branchmerge.commonuses.html#svn.branchmerge.commonuses.undo

I think this is the proper way to reverse changes, preferable to svn
copy.

Diego