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From: "Andreas Stieger" <Andreas.Stieger@gmx.de>
To: "Grierson, David" <David.Grierson@sky.uk>
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Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:38:07 +0200
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Hello,

David Grierson wrote:
> > "svn revert" will delete the local changes and nowhere to find, which
> > is dangerous.
> > I suggest the default behaiver should be save the local changed
> > file(if any) to "filename.local" and do the revert.
> >
> That's actually not a bad idea ... I've been burnt by this one a couple of times myself.
> 
> Probably worth raising it with the dev@subversion.apache.org list to see if it's something that they've considered previously.

Actually a feature in at least one GUI client:
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-dialogs
Otherwise it's rather platform specific to implement, and may be better suited for integrated clients.

Andreas