On May 11, 2017, at 5:03 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > On 5/11/17, Ross Berteig <r...@cheshireeng.com> wrote: >> On 5/10/2017 8:54 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: >>> >>> I tried to revert to a good revision 'xxx' using "fossil revert -r xxx" >> >> But in my experience, fossil revert is a rarely used command. > > Yeah. In fact, I didn't even remember that there was a 'revert' > command. And even now, I'm not entirely clear what it does, or what > it is intended to do.
I think it’s there to make Subversion transplants like me happy. In my current 1000-command Bash command history, I’ve run some variant on “fossil revert” 4 times, and other Fossil commands 240 times. That makes “revert” 1.67% of my recent Fossil commands. It’s not the best sampling method, but it is enough to make “fossil revert” a significant command in my world. As to when I use it, it’s mostly the next level beyond the use cases where you use “stash”: that is, you want to revert the current changes without even saving them, other than in the undo buffer. I use it whenever I’ve done something entirely unwanted and need to get back to the prior checkin. When you’re typing prose, do you ever just backspace over a mistyped word and retype it rather than edit it in place? “fossil revert” is like that for me with code. An example from the past week is that I accidentally said “fossil add” on a file through a symlink that is not itself checked in, so that on checkout you’d get a real directory in place of the symlink because Fossil is storing the file with the path as given on the command line, not fully dereferenced to canonical form. I noticed this error during “fossil checkin”, so I aborted the checkin comment editor, reverted the change, and re-added the file under the correct name. It may be relevant that I’m of the “check in early and often” school, so that “fossil revert” rarely throws away more than an hour of work, and often much less. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
