Loom switch pain

[Martin Pool]

On 11 Dec 2008, Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Lange wrote:
> > I've been hitting this a lot. What would help, I think, is either an
> > option to switch to say "yes, I know there are edits", or a way of
> > undoing the mistaken switch. As it is, I don't really know how to undo
> > it, and have just been reverting, losing my changes.
> > 
> > What do you all think should be done?
> 
> Switch is working the way it's supposed to work.  Use down-thread.  It
> will halt if you have uncommitted changes.

That seems slightly contradictory with the documentation of switch 

  For looms, this is equivalent to 'down-thread' when to_location is the name
  of a thread in the loom.

However, down-thread does say that it refuses to run if there are
uncommitted changes.

And is the difference between up-thread and down-thread just that they
default to different directions, and up-thread merges across the
changes?

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Martin      <http://launchpad.net/~mbp>