Hello everybody
I am newbie to develop open source project but i develop one on codeplex.com. I commit some wrong changesets to codeplex.com and i can not delete them but i know that i can delete entire project.
I just want to ask that for a good open source project, do i have to faced to delete project headaches or just fix it in next commit ?
Planting errors is (I wanted to say "normal", but that's a too positive characteristic...) typical - just fix in a separate commit, provide an appropriate commit message (like "fix error planted in revision N") and move on.
The project I work on is not open source, bu the code is of very high quality. Still I sometimes find errors that have been there for years (really!). Do I reset the entire repository because of that? Surely not. Just fix and move on.
It depends on how bad the damage is. If it is e.g. photos you would rather the world not see, then delete the changeset (if codeplex.com lets you svnadmin dump and svnadmin import, you can delete the changeset that way, without deleting the whole project.)
If the changeset just has misspelled words, or buggy code, or something, just fix it with the next check-in. You'll doubtless make mistakes in the future, so you might as well get used to it now. :)