Revert a svn folder to a previous revision

Question

To revert a particular folder in SVN to its previous state I currently use the following:

svn rm folder
svn commit -m \'removed folder to revert to previous vers         


        

Answer 1

Why not using svn merge?

Assuming you want to revert from current HEAD (last committed) version to revision 268:

cd folder
svn up
svn merge -r HEAD:268 .

Then resolve any conflicts manually (there should be nothing if there is no local change) and:

svn commit -m "- reverted to revision 268"

To revert single change (e.g. made in revision 666):

cd folder
svn merge -c -666 .

To revert local changes (not committed yet):

cd folder
svn revert -R .