Re: [Monotone-devel] Revert working copy changes

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 1 May 2005 14:46:21 -0400, Alvaro Herrera 
<address@hidden> said:

alvherre> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:35:05PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
alvherre> > How do I revert the changes to one file in my working copy? The CVS 
phrase is...
alvherre> > 
alvherre> > rm foo.c
alvherre> > cvs up foo.c
alvherre> 
alvherre> monotone diff foo.c | patch -R -p0
alvherre> 
alvherre> It works on CVS too, and it's cleaner than your approach ...

It's utter and complete crap, in CVS and monotone alike.  The proper
command in CVS is:

        cvs update -C foo.c

And in monotone:

        monotone revert foo.c

Cheers,
Richard

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