[Monotone-devel] Re: Dumb Question

[Koen Kooi]

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Bruce Stephens schreef:
> Koen Kooi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Timothy Brownawell schreef:
>>> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:20 -0700, Rob Schoening wrote:
>>>> Is there a recommended way to roll a particular file or files back to
>>>> a particular revision?  "mtn update" affects the entire workspace,
>>>> which I don't want.  Obviously "mtn cat -r revision foo.txt >foo.txt "
>>>> will work, but this seems wrong. 
>>>>  
>>>> Is it?  Or is there a better way?
>>> No, that's the right (only) way. What seems wrong about it?
>> monotone update <file> -r<rev> would seem a bit more logical.
> 
> Nathaniel suggested "revert -r<rev> <file>".  (Where <file> is
> presumably the normal restrictions specification kind of thing.)

In an ideal gui one would use revert -r<rev> to go back in ancestry and update 
-r<rev> to walk down
the family tree.
Anyway, if monotone can do 'update -r<a long time ago>' it should be able to 
'update' files in a
similiar command, otherwise users could get confused.

regards,

Koen
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