2009/8/21 Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>: > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:40 -0700, Mark Reinhold wrote: >> This change was integrated prematurely. I've rolled it back in the >> jdk7/tl/jdk repository. > > If at all possible, please don't do this. It plays havoc with already > checked out repos and/or automatic clones/backups. You force people to > recreate their local repos if you purge a commit that was already public > like this. Could you use a normal hg backout instead in the future? That > will make sure the integrity of the repo isn't compromised. >
It would be much cleaner to just do a commit reversing the patch (mjw, is that what you mean by a backout or something else?) I really don't like the idea of sanitising the repos to remove all mistakes and there's also no guarantee everyone will do this and push it in every forest. > Thanks, > > Mark > > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
