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SVN vs Orwell

Not long ago I had to change history in GIT. Now I happened to commit to Subversion a revision, but forgot to limit the files to only relevant to the log entry and thus committed all changed files. Nothing really bad, but the entry was minor, compared to all the changes and I did not want those to go unnoticed in the log. I did not think one can take back files from an already committed revision, so I searched out for a solution to change the log entry. It turns out this is relatively simple, as the Subversion FAQ points out. Read more »