[Monotone-devel] Re: Release

[Bruce Stephens]

Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker schrieb:

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>> Hmm, you're right, and still, one of its children,
>> d9df3690ffc222d7f6b1a65c34bfdfdcd6ad6735, is in nvm...
>
> And its entirely my fault! Now how can we back this out?

We can't, I think.

A more interesting question is how it might be made possible to back
out such a change.  In particular, suppose there's just one revision,
or one fork: how could we indicate that that fork is a dead end (and
so it shouldn't interfere with propagate, participate in merge, etc.)?

In this case the revision's now an ancestor of all the heads, so we're
stuck with it.

I guess once branch-renaming becomes possible, one could contemplate
putting all the acceptable revisions into a new branch, then renaming
so that the change of branch would be less annoying?

> If we disapprove this revision, can the branch be merged into nvm
> later on?

I think the files that were added in that revision (some test files?)
would then be permanently dead, so no.

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