[Gnu-arch-users] revert a mistakenly commited patch

[Milan Cvetkovic]

I thought I saw the answer to this somewhere, but I cannot find it any more.

I made a group of changes to my tree, and I commited them to arch 
repository. The commit created a new patch, for example patch-1. Then I 
realize the patch was a big mistake, and I want to "undo" it.

I know that I cannot remove patch-1 from the archive.

What I ended up doing is:

$ tla patchset patch-1 ../patch-1
$ cp {arch}/..../deep/in/side/.../patch-1 ../patch-1.log
$ tla replay --reverse ../patch-1
$ cp ../patch-1.log {arch}/..../deep/in/side/.../patch-1
$ editor `tla make-log'
$ tla commit

This creates patch-2 with the content exactly the same as base-0, with 
the patchlogs for patch-1 and patch-2.

I dod not really like to manipulate {arch} directory directly.

Is there a better way to "undo a commited revision"?

Thanks, Milan.