If you get a conflict, and upon examination decide that you want to throw out your changes and start your edits again, just revert your changes:

$ svn revert sandwich.txt
Reverted 'sandwich.txt'
$ ls sandwich.*
sandwich.txt

Note that when you revert a conflicted file, you don't have to run svn resolved .

Now you're ready to check in your changes. Note that svn resolved , unlike most of the other commands we've dealt with in this chapter, requires an argument. In any case, you want to be careful and only run svn resolved when you're certain that you've fixed the conflict in your file—once the temporary files are removed, Subversion will let you commit the file even if it still contains conflict markers.