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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: reminder: winning smallish project
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Stig Brautaset |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: reminder: winning smallish project |
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Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:29:27 +0100 |
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On Sep 20 2003, Tom wrote:
>
> > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>
> > It's like bookkeeping -- you never
> > want to delete history, so you can't erase the record that you made a
> > mistake, but you can correct the mistake, by adding a correction entry.
> > In that case, the mistaken entry probably doesn't correspond to any
> > real world event -- it's a mistake -- but there's a record of it.
>
> > If you're correcting a mistaken changeset, you want to do the same
> > thing. The normal act of replay --reverse is a funnier operation
> > (even if the implementation is more straightforward).
>
> Bookkeepers have erasors and use pencil for some things.
>
> A simple case when I certainly _do_ want to erase history is something
> like:
>
> % tla get proj--mine--1.0 wd
> % cd wd
> % tla replay --exact proj--yours--1.0--patch-41
> % [config/build/test]
> # "oops ... grabbed the wrong patch"
> % tla replay --exact --reverse proj--yours--1.0--patch-41
> % tla replay --exact proj--yours--1.0--patch-42
Wouldn't this be a case for `tla undo'?
But yeah, I see the point.
Stig
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