Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

[Robert Anderson]

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From: Jason McCarty <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

>Robert Anderson wrote:
>> Now maybe someone can conjure up a one- or two-liner to do this,
>> but wouldn't it be nice if I could do:
>> 
>> tla undo --metadata
>> 
>> and clean all the metadata changes out of my tree? Yes, it
>> would. It would be especially nice since some of the metadata
>> altered file also have content modification that I want to keep.
>
>I would refer you to the selected inventory feature plan outlined in
>http://bugs.gnuarch.org/126 , except it doesn't appear to
distinguish
>between file data changes and meta-data changes (only between
those and
>renames). But in the long run, I would expect 'tla undo
--metadata' to
>be an alias for 'tla undo --selection (m ".")', supposing 'm' meant
>metadata changes only. Or something like that.


Well, frankly it sounds mostly irrelevant.  I am not talking
about undo along file/selection boundaries.  I am talking about
undo along "type of change" boundaries.

If you're saying that you should be able to eventually mix the
two ideas in the same command, I would agree with that.  But
nothing about selection is a prerequisite to what I'm proposing.

Bob