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Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'



On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:16:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C',
> > > i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the
> > > repository?
> >
> > At least from experimentation and reading through the code, it appears
> > not to. So far I've just been doing the old hack of removing the files
> > and running 'svn update'. Perhaps file an issue at subversion.tigris.org
> > to ask that 'svn update -f' do this?
> 
> how annoying, I use that feature of cvs quite often.  "nah that was a bad 
> idea, revert".

'svn revert'

(So yes, I guess lateral thinking leads to 'svn revert; svn update'.)

> Damn shame it should be moving forward not removing useful features.

I wouldn't be so quick to discount subversion. :) I keep much of my home
directory in it, and it's behaving very nicely.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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