Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Hierarchical SCM and CVS vs SVN vs arch (was Re: in-tree pristines fatally ...)

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:13:44AM +0000, Misha Dorman wrote:
> Could you both elaborate, for the record, as much as anything:
> Mistaken that SVN has such an ability?
> Mistaken CVS lacks it? [does cvs get -p abc.c > abc.c count as "easy 
> ability"?]
> Mistaken that arch lacks it? [tla file-find is the get -p equivalent, IIRC]
> Or a combination of the above?
> 
> Has (Momchil's? Dustin's?) tla revert been added to tla1.1?
> 
> What are the advantages/disadvantages of tla revert compared with tla 
> file-find abc.c > abc.c (apart from obvious [script-fixable] usability 
> issues like having to give the filename twice)? (e.g. performance and 
> applicability, both in presence/absence of revlibs/pristines, for both 
> "revert to checked out" and "revert to arbitrary prior version").

The appropriate form would be tla file-diffs foo.c | patch -R

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