New feature? (was [darcs-users] Re: Retrieving a specific "version" of a file)

[Tommy Pettersson]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:07:18AM +0200, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> 2. A new command - let's call it "patch" just for discussion - that is
> the "opposite" of record (no, not like unrecord) in the sense that
> instead of creating patches from existing changes in WORKING (changing
> PATCHES, but not WORKING) it could create changes in WORKING from
> existing patches (changing WORKING, but not PATCHES).

I think this is only useful (but in that case very useful)
for undoing changes in a way that rollback can't.  It would
insert in working (and pending) the required changes to undo
some patches, and the changes can then be refined and recorded
with a proper name.

For going back in time the suggestion have a significant
disadvantages (that branching doesn't): you will have this very
list of unrecorded changes (possibly a huge one), so you can't
do any real work in this past time state, only look at it.
Much better to use unpull/pull, in my opinion.


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Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>