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Problems reverting changeset

Hi,

As a continuation of this question I would like to revert changeset 21219686. But I am having trouble doing this with two different methods.

JOSM reverter plugin - the connection times out.

Perl script - I get the following error:

me@server ~/revert $ perl revert.pl 21219686
Use of uninitialized value $current_cs_or_comment in pattern match (m//) at revert.pl line 45.
Use of uninitialized value $comment in string eq at revert.pl line 52.
PUT changeset/create
[[deleted line with HTML tags which don't show up nicely in help.openstreetmap.org editor]]
GET http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/21219686/download... 404 Not Found (0b)
changeset 21219686 cannot be retrieved: 404 Not Found

Can anyone help with this? Or just go ahead and do the revert for us?

Thanks

changeset revert

asked 23 Mar '14, 21:06

eric22
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One Answer:

You need to add a changeset comment when calling the Perl code. For example:

perl revert.pl 21219686 "Reverting damage in changeset 21219686"

answered 23 Mar '14, 21:58

Richard ♦
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That gets rid of the two "Use of..." errors at the top, but not the 404...

Interestingly, when I set "dryrun=0" in the config file and run again, the 404 error disappears, but instead I get "cannot create changeset: 401 Authorization Required". I wonder if this indicates my name/PW are wrong in the config file. But I've checked pretty closely, I really think they're correct.

(23 Mar '14, 22:09) eric22

Yes, that's because you're pointing at a test instance on OSM's development server (api06.dev.openstreetmap.org). You need to change this to the URL of the main OSM API. This is documented in the README at http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/revert/README .

(24 Mar '14, 07:47) Richard ♦

Richard: Thanks for putting me on the right track. I figured it out :)

(24 Mar '14, 21:09) eric22