Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Dumb Question

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:25:50PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> In an ideal gui one would use revert -r<rev> to go back in ancestry and 
> update -r<rev> to walk down
> the family tree.
> Anyway, if monotone can do 'update -r<a long time ago>' it should be able to 
> 'update' files in a
> similiar command, otherwise users could get confused.

Eek.  This tells me we need better documentation :-).

I almost wonder if we should rename "update" to "rebase" or something?
"Moving forward" just happens to be one of its more common use cases;
the basic operation is "move to X", and X defaults to "current head"
(roughly).

Revert, on the other hand, is a way of modifying the files in the
current workspace, and is entirely orthogonal to update...

-- Nathaniel

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