Re: [Monotone-devel] Documentation comments

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:02:34 +0100, Bruce Stephens 
<address@hidden> said:

monotone> Firstly there's the optional file arguments to revert.  It's
monotone> not at all surprising that they're there---it's such a
monotone> natural thing to have, but it doesn't seem to be in the
monotone> documentation.

I just took the liberty to expand on this:

--- monotone.texi
+++ monotone.texi
@@ -3289,13 +3289,18 @@
 
 
 @item monotone revert
-This command changes your working copy, so that changes you have made
-since the last checkout or update are discarded. It does this by
-changing every file listed in @file{MT/manifest} to have contents
-equal to the @sc{sha1} value listed in the manifest, and by erasing the
address@hidden/work} file.
address@hidden monotone revert @var{filename...}
 
+With no files given, this command changes your working copy, so that
+changes you have made since the last checkout or update are discarded.
+It does this by changing every file listed in @file{MT/manifest} to
+have contents equal to the @sc{sha1} value listed in the manifest, and
+by erasing the @file{MT/work} file.
 
+If files are given as arguments, only those files are affected instead
+of the entirety of your working copy.
+
+
 @item monotone update
 This command incorporates ``recent'' changes found in your database
 into your working copy. It does this by performing 3 separate


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