Removing revisions

Description

This tutorial is an addendum to the Revision control tutorial.
This tutorial explains how to remove/reset revisions, provided you have an Advanced or Pro license.

Topics covered

Revision, revision history, remove revisions, reset revisions

Main content

At some point, you may want to remove revisions from a project or file. Let's use the most common case as an example; creating a new project using an existing project (which has multiple revisions) as a template.

For this example, let's say that Project 1 is the original project that we want to use as a template for a new project. Project 1 consists of two revisions, A and B:

So, to use this Project 1 as a template, we can either apply a Save As to it or we can go to the Create/Add tab and select Create project from template.
Let's consider our new project to be named Project 2.
Due to the fact that we used Project 1 as a template, Project 2 has adopted the revisions that Project 1 had, A and B:

Project 2 is a new project so it does not make sense for it to have more than one revision yet.
Essentially, we want Revision B of Project 1 to be the first revision of Project 2.
To do this, select Project 2, go to the Configuration Management tab and select Reset all revisions to current revision.
The revisions for Project 2 are reset based on Revision B, which is renamed to Revision A.

That's it. The only thing left to do is change the description of the revision and probably change/delete the date.

Related tutorials 

• Revision control (7:56)