svn revert
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## Name

svn revert — Undo all local edits.

## Synopsis

`svn revert PATH...`

## Description

Reverts any local changes to a file or directory and resolves any conflicted states. svn revert will revert not only the contents of an item in your working copy, but also any property changes. Finally, you can use it to undo any scheduling operations that you may have performed (e.g., files scheduled for addition or deletion can be “unscheduled”).

## Options

    --changelist (--cl) ARG
    --depth ARG
    --quiet (-q)
    --recursive (-R)
    --targets FILENAME

## Examples

Discard changes to a file:

    $ svn revert foo.c
    Reverted foo.c

If you want to revert a whole directory of files, use the `--depth=infinity` option:

    $ svn revert --depth=infinity .
    Reverted newdir/afile
    Reverted foo.c
    Reverted bar.txt

Lastly, you can undo any scheduling operations:

    $ svn add mistake.txt whoops
    A         mistake.txt
    A         whoops
    A         whoops/oopsie.c

    $ svn revert mistake.txt whoops
    Reverted mistake.txt
    Reverted whoops

    $ svn status
    ?       mistake.txt
    ?       whoops

| Warning
svn revert is inherently dangerous, since its entire purpose is to throw away data—namely, your uncommitted changes. Once you've reverted, Subversion provides no way to get back those uncommitted changes. If you provide no targets to svn revert, it will do nothing. To protect you from accidentally losing changes in your working copy, svn revert requires you to explicitly provide at least one target.

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