Re: [Monotone-devel] New 'update <rev>' command?

[Christof Petig]

Nathaniel Smith schrieb:
> Heya, Joel, noticed the new version of 'update' that you added, that
> takes a revision argument.  Can you describe what the intended
> semantics of this are?
>
> In my head, the purpose of update is always to "move" your local
> changes so that they hang off of a different committed version -- it
> changes what you're making changes relative to.  The algorithm is to
> merge3 the working directory with the target revision using the
> current base revision as the common ancestor.  I'm not sure I
> understand what's happening in your code, but it doesn't look like
> it's doing that when a revision argument is applied; is it actually
> doing like a merge-into-working directory or something?

Perhaps this is similar to the monotone revert <rev> command I always 
miss and emulate by echo <rev> >MT/revision; monotone revert. ;-)

Merge into working directory would be a very interesting feature IMHO 
(it's on my far todo list).
  Christof

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