Mercurial wipes repository history!?

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 16:25 +0100, Jon Ribbens wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> >    On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:54 +0100, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> >  It is in that log, yes. It was not in the scenario we were trying to
> >  replicate. It is also not at all clear to me that "clone" should be
> >  a roll-backable operation (it is evidently not clear to the hg authors
> >  either, since a local clone is not roll-backable and a remote clone
> >  is.)
> > 
> >    "clone" is a transaction.  The fact that a local clone cannot be rolled
> >    back is an error.
> 
> Can you think of a use case that illustrates why anyone would ever
> want to roll back a "clone" - why it would ever *not* be the wrong
> thing to do?


Easy.  You used the wrong repository from which to clone.

I'll add that if you really believe that someone would never want to
rollback a clone, then they will not issue the command in the first
place.

-- 
Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
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