What can you do with: fossil update ?VERSION? FILES...
That you cannot do easily with? fossil revert ?-r REVISION? ?FILE ...? Or I am missing something or "fossil update files..." is redundant. RR 2011/3/17 Joshua Paine <jos...@letterblock.com>: > On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:00 AM, "johnfound" <johnfo...@evrocom.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:22:22 +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov >> <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>> >>> That is, my understanding is that it's check-ins (changesets) that are >>> versioned, not files, and so it's the relations between check-ins which >>> are considered when doing merges. >> >> If so, then using "fossil update ?VERSION? ?FILES" syntax violate the >> "Principle of least astonishment". > > The trouble with the principle of least astonishment is how unpredictable > people's astonishment can be. > > Changing a particular file or files in my checkout to the version of those > files in some past or other branch is not a daily need, but I wouldn't call > it rare for me. SVN actually does keep track of the revision of individual > files, which I always found actually got in my way when all I want to do is > replace a file with a previous version. There may be an easier way, but in > SVN I always ended up copying and pasting the file contents from a graphical > history view. > > So a former SVN user could easily find the fossil behavior astonishing. It > wasn't astonishing to me, and it was a welcome change, but then I had some > intervening DVCS experience. > > Git has no 'update' but uses the checkout verb for switching to a different > commit, and like fossil git allows you to checkout only specific files of a > given revision. When you do, it behaves just like fossil update VERSION > FILES--the file is changed, but no record is kept of what version it came > from. > > I don't consider this a bug, and I would really hate to lose this capability > I don't care if it gets a different name, though, if that satisfies others > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
