How do I update a working tree to an old revision?

[Nicholas Allen]

I thought this problem seemed familiar - I submitted a bug about it 3 
years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/45719

It seems there is a lot of demand for this feature judging by the 
comments on the bug report. The fact that every other major VCS has this 
feature too makes it quite important for Bazaar I think. Is it feasable 
that it can land in the next Bazaar release?

Nick

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to update my working tree to an old revision to see where a
>> bug was introduced. The update command does not have a -r option to
>> specify the revision. revert is not what I want because this reverts the
>> changes but keeps the working tree at the tip revision (so the changes
>> appear as changes to commit).
>>     
>
> It's an outstanding feature IIUIC. If you're keen, try
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~mhammond/bzr/update-r
>
> I think there was a patch submitted last year for switch -r as well that
> I rejected because it needed more tests. If the above doesn't work, you
> might want to search for it.
>
> Ian C.
>