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

[Dustin Sallings]

On Dec 5, 2003, at 8:13, 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*.  So,
> if I have abc.c from a patch-248 tree, and I want to go back to
> patch-230 for *just* *that* *one* *file*, then I can't do it without
> pulling patch-230 of the whole tree in a separate directory, and 
> copying
> over that one file.

	It seems to suggest it will give you a path to a specific version (as 
does file-revert).

> Or, I could do this, which I wasn't aware of . . .
>
> > The appropriate form would be tla file-diffs foo.c | patch -R
>
> Does this work for going *back* in time as well as forward?

        This will not handle permission changes.  Will it handle deletions?

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Dustin Sallings