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Undo that SVN add

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on June 11, 2007 - 8:10am
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In Subversion, to cancel an svn add example_folder command before committing to the repository, do not use svn delete or svn remove or made-up stuff like undo or cancel.

Use the svn revert command:

svn revert --recursive example_folder

And all will be well.

Update: Commenter says this can lose local changes. Not sure about that, but my use case was indeed to get rid of everything so i didn't care. And i'm on Git now.

Comments

Thank you

Submitted by William Notowidagdo (not verified) on May 6, 2009 - 8:16pm.

I just made some wrong svn rm, and your post here save me to undo it.

Consider

Submitted by Brainiac5 (not verified) on May 17, 2009 - 6:50pm.

This will revert all edits you may have made to other files that already were under version control. Those edits that you'd loose for good as they are not yet in the repository.

Thanks a lot

Submitted by Simon Wilkinson (not verified) on February 3, 2011 - 5:23am.

This revert, of course this time followed by 'svn add --non-recursive my_folder' worked a treat.

Simon

Thanks!

Submitted by Víctor Valdez (not verified) on September 4, 2011 - 10:56am.

Really useful :)

Revert safe for uncontrolled files

Submitted by Jack (not verified) on December 14, 2011 - 5:17am.

svn reverting on files added but not yet committed will not change those files. svn reverting files under version control will revert the file to the version in the given revision of the repository. As long as the files you just added are not under version control in the first place svn revert will be safe.

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