On 10/6/15, Tony Papadimitriou <[email protected]> wrote:
> When restoring a previous version of a single file, is there any practical
> difference between the following two actions:
>
> fossil up version file
> fossil rev -r version file
>
> I have been using the UPDATE method up to now.  But, I ran into the other
> possibility in the docs and I wonder when each should be used, or do they
> always have exactly the same effect?
>

I believe that UPDATE will attempt to merge in local edits, whereas
REVERT will overwrite your edits and make the file exactly equal to
what was in the -r check-in.
-- 
D. Richard Hipp
[email protected]
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