Where is the 'Revert' option in Xcode 4's Source Control?

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Wex picture Wex · Mar 24, 2011 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I'm using SVN in Xcode 4 as my source control; but can't see any option to revert to an older revision? Either a 'revert' or an 'update to revision' command? The 'Update' option always seems to update to the HEAD.

Of course - I can do this on the command-line, but can't believe there's no way to do it within Xcode...

Does anyone know where it's hidden? Or is there really no such option?

Answer

Joshua Nozzi picture Joshua Nozzi · Mar 24, 2011

Unfortunately the SCM functionality in 4.0 is fairly limited. You can commit, switch branches, branch/merge, diff previous versions, update to HEAD, but you can't revert.

We all expect this to get better in successive updates but it does seem like a rather silly omission. The Time-Machine-like diff version picker seems the perfect place to put the UI, so I'd expect it to appear there when it's finally supported.

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