Bazaar completely lost files by "revert"

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Joseph,

Am 22/03/12 17:50, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
> On 24/02/12 16:32, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> It would be nice if `bzr revert --help` would tell a word that it
>> only affetcs the working tree.
>>
>>    Giving a list of files will revert only those files.  Otherwise,
>> all files
>>    will be reverted.  If the revision is not specified with
>> '--revision', the
>>    last committed revision is used.
>>
>> Describing the command "revert" with "it reverts ... files" is
>> maybe not clear enough.
>
> How about the following tweaks to the Purpose and opening of the
> Description in the help docs:
>
> Purpose: Revert files in the working tree to match those in a previous
> revision.
>
> Description:
>   Giving a list of files will revert only those files.  Otherwise, all
> files
>   will be reverted.  If the revision is not specified with
> '--revision', the
>   last committed revision is used.  The revert affects only the
> working tree
>   and not the version history.
>
I've proposed a change to the revert help text based on this. Merge
proposal:
https://code.launchpad.net/~jelmer/bzr/tweak-revert-help/+merge/99141
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ejelmer/bzr/tweak-revert-help/+merge/99141>

Cheers,

Jelmer
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