restore a file

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jesper Olsen wrote:
> Thanks - I got a reply from Erik Bågfors also, but  by accident the
> correspondence did
> not go via the list...

Oops.  Clearly not enough coffee.

>>  Thanks - I was not aware of that command.
>>  It actually does work for me (bzr 0.6), but only if a file with that name
>> exists - ie. you
>>  have to create it if it was deleted.

That's not how it's supposed to work.  I've fixed it up in my branch,
and it seems to behave well.

>>  I'm not sure if the backup filenaming convention is good - it's the same
>> that vim uses,
>>  so vim will replace the backup next time that file is edited. But maybe
>> that's ok...

It's very much a stopgap, in case people accidentally revert something
they didn't mean to.  I hope that we will soon switch to changesets, so
that reverts create a single file that can be easily un-reverted.

Aaron
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