switch to a past revision

[Martin Pool]

On  2 Aug 2006, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Simple question about bzr : is there a way to switch to a past
> revision while retaining the local changes.
> 
> I know "bzr revert -r something", but :
> 
> 1) It reverts local changes
> 
> 2) It doesn't set .bzr/checkout/last-revision, so a further "update"
>    will not return to the head.
> 
> 
> Probably this could/should be achieved by adding a "-r" option to
> update.

It's be good to fix.  I agree 'update -r' would be the way to do it.  It
should be really trivial as all the underlying machinery in workingtree
is already there as far as I know.

-- 
Martin