[darcs-devel] removing darcs rollback --record?

Florent Becker florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
Thu Jun 14 19:37:20 UTC 2012


> 
> I say we should go a little further, by completely removing the
> rollback --record feature, hence forcing users to look into their
> working copy before recording the result of the rollback. That would
> also reduce by half the Darcs.UI.Commands.Rollback module and remove a
> few flags from the darcs UI code, which is always nice.
> 
I'd be in favour of the removal, except for one thing: if you do a
rollback while you have some changes in working, then rollback
--no-record represents a loss of information compared to rollback
--record. Ideally, we'd have a way to compensate that before we remove
rollback --record.

Florent


> An old discussion on the same topic: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue158
> (see http://bugs.darcs.net/msg2329)
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> guillaume




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