Rollback and pull problems

Dustin Sallings dustin at spy.net
Wed Dec 12 17:25:13 UTC 2007


On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:41, Martin Marques wrote:

> As I was reading the hg book I got into a the part that talks about
> rolling back a commit, and how it's useless once you pushed a copy to
> another repository.
>
> Does this also apply to people pulling from the repo after the commit
> and before the rollback?
>
> I did some tests, and evidently it gives some problems.


	Yes.  The idea is that rollback is only useful if the change is  
completely private to your tree.  If someone else has seen it by any  
means, then you can't really undo it without a large coordination  
effort.

-- 
Dustin Sallings

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