Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New aba command: revert, name clash with tla sh

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:24:41PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>  
>
> > As long as were debating alias names, how about "aba repent" for throwing
> > away an errant commit when you realize 5 seconds too late that you've
> > screwed up. j/k
> >    
>
> Would be nice indeed, and quite the ugly kind of things which falls
> within aba vocation.
>
> Just go ahead, it would not be very difficult to get working for local
> archives, which is about the only case where it is safe. Just remember
> cleaning the revlibs.
>
> Also it would make sense to make it an interactive command, required the
> user to type something like "yes I want to risk breaking my universe".
> :)
>
>  
Here's an alternative that doesn't take the risk of changing history:
Given patch-16 as the bad revision, and patch-15 as the last good one, 
tag into the same branch:

$ tla tag foo--bar--0--patch-15 foo--bar--0

This turns patch-16 into an interesting historical footnote, rather than 
part of the ancestry of patch-17 etc.

That's permitted by the archive format, and given the amount of effort 
I've invested in handling that case in the backbuilder, it would be nice 
to see someone use it.

Aaron