Question: I want svn update to overwrite my local file with the files from the server, even if my local files have modifications, I want to throw them away and use the version that's on the remote repository.

How do I do that? I tried `svn update --force` but it doesn't work.

### Update:

Thanks for the answers, so I'm using revert like this:

```
svn revert . -R

```

Is this how I'm supposed to use it? is it safe? I have a git repository in the same pace and I don't want svn to corrupt my `.git` for me!

Answer: 
I have this problem occasionally on OSX (10.6, currently using svn 1.6.16). A workaround is to do this:

```
 svn update `svn ls -R`

```

It can be slow though.

Ref: <http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=3192>
use svn revert