Re: Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How will policy branches work?

[Nuno Lucas]

On Feb 11, 2008 9:09 AM, Daniel THOMPSON <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nuno Lucas wrote:
> >>> Probably this will be solved when monotone gets a proper "cherry pick"
> >>> system. It would then be possible to "pluck" some group of revisions
> >>> (that could be restricted by path) and retain history.
> >> I'm not exactly sure what you have in mind for being a "proper cherry
> >> pick" thing.
> >
> > For me "cherry picking" is just what pluck does, but with an added
> > "unpluck" option.
>
> I understood that pluck merely applies the delta between two revisions
> (whilst honouring renames etc).
>
> "unpluck" is effectively already present:
>
> mtn pluck -r 1111 -r 2222
>
> is reversed using:
>
> mtn pluck -r 2222 -r 1111
>
> (clearly you need a wrapper to identify the parent if you use pluck with
> only one argument).

Nice. Never thought about that, even after already using this feature
by mistake one or two times.


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas