"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> writes:
> "rollback" has a precise meaning in database theory. It means to
> undo the last transaction (possibly incomplete) in the history. IMO
> Mercurial uses this correctly, Darcs does not.
Erm, in Darcs 2 rollback records a new inverse patch. That is, it's
something like
darcs diff -p foo | patch -p1 -R
darcs record -m 'rollback foo'
I would have thought that a rolled-back transaction (in database terms)
is closer to obliterate, since the end result is that you have no record
of that transcation, rather than X + -X = 0. Admittedly, IANADBA.
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