Conflict while using "bzr pull"

Jamie Wilkinson jaq at spacepants.org
Wed Dec 14 01:28:23 GMT 2005


This one time, at band camp, James Blackwell wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:53:28AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Actually, I just do "rm * -R; bzr revert".  Because .bzr doesn't match
>> the * glob, but almost everything revert cares about does.
>
>Grin. When I read his post, I read it as "rm -rf branch/*""
>
>> > What do people think, should we have a "bzr revert --force", or maybe a
>> > "bzr revert --everything". I think it would be nice to have a single
>> > command which says, "I know things are messed up right now, get me back
>> > to exactly FOO, so I can continue with my life".
>> 
>> Perhaps "bzr revert --pristine" would delete all unversioned files as
>> well as restoring source files to the correct names and contents.
>
>-1 to pristine. Though archers know it, it not in the common venacular.

-1 to both, because I think it'd be uncommon enough situation that bzr
doesn't need to go to the trouble (and thus maintenance and testing load) to
support it; "rm -R *; bzr revert" is good enough.




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