I have an SVN repository for a bunch of code. Had received two directories from a co-worker (who doesn't use my svn repository) and used those two to replace two directories in my repository. I committed and everything seemed fine. When I ran an update on a different machine (one where I do updates as a way of keeping a backup of the current version, but never use the files). I then saw that many of the files (that were not in the two directories I replaced) are gone. I can't seem to get the revert command to do anything, and since I have never had to restore to an older version of the repository I do not know how (or if) it can be done.

I want to go back two versions in my repository to get the old files back. Can this be done, and if so what is the command? I am sure it is somewhere on the internet but I couldn't find it at red-book where I normally look and I didn't see anything that stood out to me in my google and forum searches (however it could be because I am a little flustered that I just overwrote my backup with a bad version of my repo and am worried about losing two years of my PhD dissertation work, I guess I learned that my current way of "backing" up, isn't sufficient, and I should start doing better backups, I always have to learn the hardway).

Thanks for any help,
John

At first I had only searched for svn commands, but now I did find the command

svnadmin recover

but I am not sure how that works. It says that is brings the database back into a consistent state. It doesn't say if I can restore to a certain version number. Also, it says it only works with the bdb backend, how do I tell if I am using that?

I think I got it, I can just checkout an older version of the respository (I wasn't aware that I could do that). But I am not sure what will happen if I try to commit with the older files, the only things of the new revision I want to keep are the two directories I replaced.

I did what this page said

http://sankas.blogspot.com/2008/02/h...sitory-to.html

(And then I backed up!!)

So I guess a rollback is a merge with a previous version.
That is a relief. I guess I should learn more about my version control before I continue to screw things up.