History editing (Was: Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core?)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

James Westby writes:

 > So you would prefer that this was one command? (at least up to the
 > commit and send part)

No, it should not be a single command.  Not all 3 line functions
should be in the stdlib.  But we'd like TOOWTDI.

 > >  > bzr revision-info

The main thing is, can't we tag the right revision here, cheaply,
without ever mentioning an explicit revid?  Schlepping around revids
sucks, even in git or hg where you can usually abbreviate to 5 or 6
random hex digits.  In bzr where the first 60 characters or so are
generally going to refer to you and not the revision, this is
unbearable.

 > >  > bzr pull trunk -overwrite
 > >  > bzr merge . -r REVID
 > >  > bzr revert --forget-merges

Minor point, "--forget-merges"?  That's not one that I would think of.