Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone revert

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:33:22 -0800, Nathaniel Smith 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> njs> Comments would be appreciated.  In particular, what do people
> njs> think of having:
> njs>   * 'revert foo/bar.txt' -> works as now
> njs>   * 'revert --all' -> works like current 'revert'
> njs>   * 'revert' -> error?
> [...]
> njs> So the question seems to be what actual users would prefer...
> njs> comments please!
>
> For things like revert, I would always lean on the safer side rather
> than getting an unwanted surprise.
>
> Why not 'revert .'?  My mind is a little blurry for the moment, wasn't
> there another command that took the '.' argument to signify that the
> whole tree should be considered?

Well 'monotone drop' and 'monotone add' require paths like that to work 
on the tree.  'monotone revert' could work along those lines.  Also I am 
wondering if we even need a "revert whole tree" type command.  Dosen't 
monotone revert . from the project root do just that (like monotone add .)?

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Matthew A. Nicholson
Digium