Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New aba command: revert, name clash with tlash

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:33:26PM +0000, Robin Green wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >
> > > From your description, I'm not sure I understand; how does it differ 
> > > from "tla undo revision?"
> >
> > tla undo revision deletes the patch logs of patches being undone. I
> > don't want that, because then I can't directly commit.
>
>
> "revert" is already the name of a tlash alias for "tla replay --reverse"
> which is IMHO very handy and natural.

Hmm...  extract?  reject?

> Eventually aba subcommands will be usable from tlash in the same way as
> tla subommands (without the wrapper name), maybe you could change the name
> of your command, or propose a better alias for "tla replay --reverse"?

Oh, are we out-of-sync?  I thought they worked already.  James has 
recently merged my latest tlash-compatibility hacks.

> Since I do not know what your command does precisely, I can hardly
> propose something... maybe undo-nolog, or "undo -l" / "undo --no-log",
> meaning undo but does not touch patchlogs?

Yes, it's a log-preserving undo command.

> BTW, an outstanding issue with tla is the ability ignore the patchlog
> part of (non-pathological) changesets, or apply only the patchlog part.
> That would effect several commands, at least "changeset",
> "apply-changeset", "replay", "changes", and maybe also "undo", "redo",
> "apply-delta", etc.

We can factore out the metadata-restoring stuff, if useful.  Both 
patch-logs and tree-version may be altered by an undo.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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