bug report: hg backout (without revision)

Ralf Schmitt ralf at brainbot.com
Tue Jun 26 13:16:08 UTC 2007


Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> 
> Well, backout seems to require an argument:
> 
> djc at enrai ~ $ hg help backout
> hg backout [OPTION]... REV
> 
> So you just shouldn't do that. But it shouldn't throw an unexpected 
> exception, and maybe this command should even be allowed (to mean, just 
> backout tip).

I thought that hg backout without arguments would tell to me supply an 
argument and just print the usage message. So, I had been rather 
surprised if it did backout tip by default.

BTW, congratulations to the development team on the new release and many 
thanks for a wonderful tool.

Regards,
Ralf




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