This section is from the "Version Control with Subversion" book, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato. Also available from Amazon: Version Control with Subversion.
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.