如何撤消“ svn up -r <old version> ”

Question

I wanted to go back and check how things looked at a previous commit, so I used

svn up -r<number>

As so many posts on this site suggest. But NOW I want to go BACK to what in git-speak is the HEAD, my most recent commit.

I checked svn log to get the revision number, but the log only goes up to the old commit I updated to.

How can I go back to my most recent revision? I'm a little scared to just

svn revert

Knowing that that has a tendency to destroy stuff if you're not careful.

Answer 1

A revert will not change the revision of your working copy, it will merely remove any changes that it contains. Just do an update without arguments:

svn update

The implicit revision is HEAD when you do not supply a revision number. You could do it explicitly as well:

svn update -rHEAD

The update command will do its best to preserve your changes, while revert will remove them all.