Re: What have the Romans done for us? (Bazaar)

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Yes.  But remember: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107077
>> (which is actively being worked on).
> Thanks.  Any ETA?  It's really annoying to wait 2-3 minutes each time
> I do a simple "bzr up", and similarly for "bzr ci" to the public
> repository.

FWIW, it will be an improvement, but don't expect it to become
zippy either.

> Well, yes, but the quality of the Bazaar docs leaves a lot to be
> desired.  E.g., I just learned (through a question posted to the
> Bazaar list) that to fully revert a tree to a certain old revision,
> one needs to do a "bzr update -rNNN" rather than "bzr revert -rNNN".

Of course, this actually depends on what you define as "fully revert
a tree to a certain old revision".  If the intention is to undo the
changes since that revision, then "bzr revert -rNNN" is the right
answer, IIUC.  Whereas if you want to revert to revision NNN to
reproduce a bug there, then "bzr update -rNNN" is probably what
you want.

"bzr revert" is kind of like "cvs update -p", whereas "bzr update" is
kind of like "cvs update".


        Stefan