[Fwd: A new user experience]

[Martin Pool]

On 19/10/05, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Interesting. To my understanding, bzr does indeed have this same
> performance. "bzr revert" reverts the entire tree back to it's current
> state. And the current state of an uncommitted tree is completely empty.

We should probably change

>
> On the other hand, I believe we ignore .o files by default.
>
> I do believe there is work being done (if not completed) such that doing a
> revert on a working tree will at least create backup files, or possibly
> not delete files that have newly been added.
>
> There was certainly a discussion about it within the last month (probably
> week).
>
> Thanks for a little reminder, though.
>
> John
> =:->
>
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: A new user experience
> > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:15:12 +0100
> > From: Dan Lewis <actiondan at gmail.com>
> > To: mercurial at selenic.com
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm new to mercurial, so I just thought I'd share a new user experience
> > with you. I tried an initial commit of a project I started today, using
> > version 0.7. Following the advice of the QuickStart wiki page, I typed
> > the following commands:
> >
> >     hg init
> >     hg addremove
> >     hg status
> >
> > There were a number of unwanted files shown as added (object files
> > etc...), due to not setting up the .hgignore file properly. Guessing
> > from the list of commands how to get back to the state before the
> > addremove, I bravely typed:
> >
> >     hg revert
> >
> > ...and promptly wiped out the day's work. Don't get me wrong - I'm not
> > aiming to kick anybody but myself for this mistake (which I did, several
> > times), but I thought you may find the story useful. Should revert be
> > this destructive? Should there have been a warning? Should I have read
> > the effing manual (ok... don't answer that one).
> >
> > I'm going to persevere, just with a little more caution.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
> >
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Martin