[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: reminder: winning smallish project

[Stig Brautaset]

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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