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

[Charles Duffy]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 10:13, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2003 05:07 am, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:13:44AM +0000, Misha Dorman wrote:
> > > What are the advantages/disadvantages of tla revert compared with
> > > tla file-find abc.c > abc.c (apart from obvious [script-fixable]
> 
> According to my documentation, file-find merely prints the location of a 
> file.  It does not dump any particular *version* *of* *a* *file*.

$ tla file-find --help
find given version of file
usage: tla file-find [options] file [revision]
<...>

Appears pretty clearly to support finding a specific revision.

> > The appropriate form would be tla file-diffs foo.c | patch -R
> 
> Does this work for going *back* in time as well as forward?

$ tla file-diffs --help
show local changes to a file
usage: tla file-diffs [options] file [revision]
<...>

Note, once again, the "revision" parameter.