[webkit-dev] What is the webkit-patch version of svn-unapply?

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> Lets say I just did "webkit-patch upload" and I am Subversion user and I now want the patch out of my tree. Does webkit-patch have a command to help me do it? I can’t just use "svn revert" because that doesn’t handle things like added, removed, and moved files.

I've had a similar problem when using SVN.  On git, I use the command
"git reset --hard".  Currently, you can use the following command:

webkit-patch update --force-clean

That runs both the "update" and the "clean" steps:

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/commands/download.py#L46

We could expose a command that runs just the clean step:

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/steps/cleanworkingdirectory.py

Adam