Re: Bzr Emacs question

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?

> >> > (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.