He could ask his colleagues to send him their copies of the files, or try to edit them back into their original state by hand (which for some reason hardly ever seems to work).īut he's using Subversion, and hasn't committed his work to the repository, so all he has to do is revert his local changes.
Without version control, his choices would be grim. The next day, when he's back in human form, he wants to undo his changes. So his changes don't make a lot of sense. Unfortunately, he forgot that there was a full moon.
Suppose that Wolfman's working copy of the monsters project is in sync with the head, which is Revision 12.
In this episode, we will show you how to use version control to recover old versions of your files. Hello, and welcome to the fourth episode of the Software Carpentry lecture on version control.
