Reverting single file in SVN to a particular revision

Question

Hello,

I have a file as shown below in an SVN repo that I would like to revert to a previous version. What is the way to do this in SVN? I want only downgrade this particular file to an older version, not the whole repo.

Thanks.

$ svn log myfile.py
----------------------
r179 | xx | 2010-05-10

Change 3
----------------------
r175 | xx | 2010-05-08

Change 2
----------------------
r174 | xx | 2010-05-04

Initial

Answer 1

One option would be to use a SVN client (like TortoiseSVN) to check out the file at the specific revision and then recommit it. The result will be essentially what you are wanting.

Answer 2

If you just want the old file in your working copy:

svn up -r 147 myfile.py

If you want to rollback, see this duplicate question.

Answer 3

For a single file, you could do:

svn export -r <REV> svn://host/path/to/file/on/repos file.ext

You could do svn revert <file> but that will only restore the last working copy.

Answer 4

The best way is to:

svn merge -c -RevisionToUndo ^/trunk

this will undo all files of the revision than simply revert those file you don't like to undo. Don't forget the "-" as prefix for the revision.

svn revert File1 File2

Now commit the changes back.