Re: Bzr Emacs question

[Bill Wohler]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:22:28 -0800
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > >> From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> > >> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:47:31 -0800
> > >> 
> > >> > A tag is not a revision-id by itself.  Try
> > >> >
> > >> >   bzr up -r tag:mh-e-8.3.1
> > >> 
> > >> Not surprisingly, that produces the same error.
> > >
> > > I guess I don't understand what your "bzr tag" command did.  What is
> > > "emacs-24.1" in that command?
> > 
> > I want the mh-e-8.3.1 tag to correspond to the Emacs 24.1 release. I had
> > assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that the emacs-24.1 tag was what I wanted.
> 
> In what branch did you issue that "bzr tag" command?

trunk.

I also tried creating a branch of emacs-24, but got the same error
there.

> > >> > (And I'm not sure you really want "up" and not some other command, but
> > >> > that's another story.)
> > >> 
> > >> What would you recommend as an alternative to "svn up -r<revision>"?
> > >
> > > I don't know, I never used SVN seriously.  What did you want to
> > > accomplish?
> > 
> > I want to grab the MH-E files associated with the Emacs 24.1 release in
> > order to make an MH-E 8.3.1 release.
> 
> If you want to update the tree to a certain revision, I think
> "bzr revert" is a better choice, because "update" will leave any
> uncommitted changes you might have.

OK, thanks!

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