Parsing a command

[Ghyslain Leclerc]

Hello Tony,

I actually had read a little about the three suggestions and I agree with you that this would work.  I'll have to read a little more to be confident (thanks for the links).

My problem is that the others in my group are not as willing to spend time using and learning Mercurial as I am and so I want to try and find a solution that will prevent the need to use rollback, revert or backout or any other way of undoing something.

As I said, maybe there is simply no solution for what I want.  I was just trying my luck.

Thanks again.
Ghyslain




On 2013-04-26, at 16:34 , Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/04/13 19:09, Ghyslain Leclerc wrote:
>> [...] I worry (maybe without cause !) about commands that can't be undone after the fact.
> [...]
> 
> There are three ways to "undo after the fact" in Mercurial:
> 
> 1) A *single* transaction can be undone after the fact, but you should only use this if you're sure that *no one* has pulled from your repository in the meantime. This action *cannot* be repeated to get at successively earlier points in the history. There is also no "redo" if you undo what you shouldn't.
> 
> 2) One or more files, or even all changed files, can be brought back to what they were at some previous revision, making these files appear modified. Follow it by a commit if you want to make this reversion permanent.
> 
> 3) The effect of a single previous changeset can be undone by applying its patches in reverse. This creates a new changeset, child of the changeset to be undone, and which has the same working directory contents as the latter's parent but a different history. Optionally, the new changeset can then be merged with the current changeset, leaving the merge uncomitted. This "uncommittedness" allows you to intervene manually if there are merge conflicts to be resolved.
> 
> See:
> 	1) hg help rollback
> 	2) hg help revert
> 	3) hg help backout
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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