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Re: Undo a branch
From: |
Stephen Rasku |
Subject: |
Re: Undo a branch |
Date: |
Fri, 4 May 2001 08:30:26 -0700 (PDT) |
Jerry Nairn wrote:
>
>Hi,
>A colleague is writing a branch creation script which will make
a branch
>point tag name and a branch name based on the purpose of the
branch
>following a set of conventions, tag the branch point, and
create the branch.
>It all looks pretty good, but he asked me today about the best
way to "undo"
>a branch if the user decides he made a mistake. My answer was
that this
>shouldn't be something you do so carelessly that you would
frequently want
>to undo it, but that answer didn't satisfy him.
>So my question is (are) what is the best way to undo a branch
in an
>automated way? What are the issues to look out for?
What is the result that he wants after undoing a branch? If he
wants to continue as if he never created the branch, he can just
abandon the branch and continue development on the parent branch
as if nothing has happened; he doesn't need to "undo" anything.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: address@hidden
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TGI Technologies