[Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

[Robert Anderson]

I'm in a hairy situation that I don't fully understand while
doing a star-merge where a bunch of files are ending up with
changed metadata, even though none of the applied patches contain
metadata deltas. But, it is kind of irrelevant that they don't.
The point is that I want to commit all the changes except the
metadata changes, no matter if I understand where they come from
or not.

Now maybe someone can conjure up a one- or two-liner to do this,
but wouldn't it be nice if I could do:

tla undo --metadata

and clean all the metadata changes out of my tree? Yes, it
would. It would be especially nice since some of the metadata
altered file also have content modification that I want to keep.
Scripting this with some kind of "undo files with metadata
changes" would be wrong.

Bob