Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Newbie Question 2

[Kevin Smith]

graydon hoare wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>
> > 2) When a depot has multiple versions of a file, can one extract 
> > version n-1 (i.e. extract the earlier version even after a later 
> > version has been committed)
>
>
> yes. time travel is a fundamental VC task. all such systems (CVS, arch, 
> SVN, etc.) will let you do this too.

Depending on how you interpret the question, I might argue that 'time 
travel' is not a fundamental operation of darcs. You can do it, but 
darcs seems different from all the others: the only way to extract an 
earlier version of a file is to revert the repository (repo) itself back 
to an earlier version.

Essentially, if you want to view an earlier revision of a file using 
darcs, you need to create a branch. That is, you create another copy of 
the repo (which will use hard links if possible).

With monotone, as with CVS, you can freely bounce your working copy 
around between versions, without affecting the depot/repo.

Kevin