[MERGE] a pitiable story about i18n need in bzr at the command line

Forest Bond forest at alittletooquiet.net
Fri Aug 29 20:45:30 BST 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:25:51PM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Viktor Nagy wrote:
> > I've just run bzr revert instead of bzr resolve simply because I'm not
> > native english and remembered only the beginning of the word whlie
> > typing rev[TAB], arrgh
> > 
> > if I send you a patch asking for confirmation of revert (when there
> > are no files specified) is there any chance to have it accepted? (see
> > it attached)
> 
> Probably not. I know I use plain "bzr revert" all the time and would probably
> be annoyed by the prompting. I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
> 
> However, you haven't actually permanently lost your changes. They are all
> still available in "backup" files. Just look for files name "foo.~1~".
> 
> Basically, if revert determines that you could not get the contents back, it
> creates a backup file. (so doing bzr merge, bzr revert will not create backup
> files, since those changes were automatically generated. But if you were to
> *edit* one of those merged files, it would get a backup file.)

Maybe bzr should notify the user that such a backup has been created?  This is
sort of like the notification that occurs when hidden files are not added.  It
stays out of your way but provides discoverability for new users.

-Forest
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Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net
http://www.pytagsfs.org
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