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

[Nicholas Allen]

> It changes the file contents of working tree to a certain revision.
> Whether you choose to commit that is entirely up to you.
Ah ok - that's exactly what I need ;-)
>
> > misunderstanding of what revert -r does on my behalf. It sounds like
> > what I would expect update -r to do.
>
> The main difference is that update -r changes the tip revision of the
> tree and revert does not.  This means that if you update -r and run
> status or diff, no changes will be shown.  It also means that you can't
> commit.
>
> > I guess I would use merge command
> > to make changes to working tree that revert to an old revision then?
>
> Once you have identified the revision that introduced the bug (I'll call
> it $BAD_REVISION), you can "bzr revert" to restore your working tree
> files to what they were before you started looking for the bug.
>
> Normally, you would fix the bug, but you can also use "bzr merge . -r
> $BAD_REVISION..before:$BAD_REVISION" to remove the changes introduced by
> $BAD_REVISION, and commit the result.
>
> Is that what you mean?
Yeah thanks for that. I think it would be more intuitive if revert had a
-c option to revert the changes in a given revision. It would do the
same thing as a reverse revision range merge. So you would just do:

bzr revert -c $BAD_REVISION

Perhaps it could also take a list of bad revisions?

Cheers,

Nick