From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RCS revert to previous version Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:07:41 -0000 Organization: The Lott Company Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5lr8eveba5.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5l8z12e8i5.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034580435 9285 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2002 07:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 180zdC-0002Pd-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:27:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 180zSb-0000Id-00; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:16:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-motd: Can Spam! X-message-flag: Outlook Critical Error! Please Restart Your Computer. X-Face: 7?1,~hLJv9R%<#DNR6m@9W**a.!h-)!o5B1\Y*}7"#k%MzvMP?z#A"Y@ai5SY[@JE95J'AQKwlk'5CbWOp:v5^HL>*a-.cPv*sXU?_ Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 42 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:75273 gnu.emacs.help:106022 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2570 on 13 Oct 2002, "Stefan Monnier " spake thusly: >>>> If I am working on, say 1.7 of a document using RCS, what is the >>>> easiest way to revert to a specific version, say 1.4 as an example? >>> >>> What do you mean by "revert" ? >>> In your example, when you say you want to revert to 1.6, which >>> of the following options do you mean: >>> - you simply want the content of the file to be the same as the >>> one in version 1.6 (and it will be committed as 1.9 if you ever >>> commit it, at which point 1.6 and 1.9 would be the same) >>> - you really want to get back to the time when 1.6 was the latest >>> and simply discard 1.7 and 1.8 (i.e. after reverting to 1.6, >>> modifying the file and committing it, it'd be committed as 1.7). >>> - you want to go back to the time of 1.6 but without discarding >>> 1.7 and 1.8, such that after modifying the file, it will be >>> committed as 1.6.1.1 (i.e. first version on a new branch named >>> 1.6.1). >>> - yet something else. > >> I want to "revert" as in "go back" to a previous version. Discarding >> all changes in between. I don't care what the new revision number is >> when I check the document back in. I care about the content. Most of >> your other scenarios don't match any meaning of the word "revert" >> that I am aware of, but hopefully this makes it clearer. I want to be >> able to say "oops, this is all wrong, let's go back three versions >> and begin again." > > All three scenarios are the same as far as the file's content is > concerned. The difference is in the history information kept in the > RCS file itself. Fine. And since I am going back and starting over, I don't care about the version numbers or the comments for versions that have been discarded and are unrecoverable... so either having those entries disappear entirely and going back to the next available version number (i.e. I revert to 1.4 and the next checkin makes it 1.5) OR whatever needs to be done (i.e. if I have to keep at version 1.8 for the next checkin despite 1.5-1.7 no longer existing) would be fine. Unless there is some recoverable text (which in this case there would not be) then I am not really interested in retaining history information about that unrecoverable text :)