Interesting. WebKit has similar functionality as:
bugzilla-tool rollout 12345
We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster
than SVN reverse merges.
I wonder what bugzilla-tool/drover can learn from one another.
-eric
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Nicolas Sylvain <nsylv...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi
> One of the goal of the Green Tree Task Force was to make reverting a change
> easy and fast.
> This is really important to keep the tree green and open. The old saying
> is "Revert now, think later"... If a change broke the build and the fix
> would
> take more than 1 or 2 minutes to be committed, or if the committer is not
> answering pings, then the change needs to be reverted asap.
> Turns out it was already easy and fast with Anthony's drover tool.
> If you have depot_tools in your path, just type :
> drover --revert XXXX
> where XXXX is the revision you want to revert.
> Since the tool creates temporary files, I suggest you go to the temp
> directory first.
> It should take only a few seconds, even for a really big change. You don't
> even need
> to have a chrome checkout on your machine.
> This tool should work on all platforms. You need svn 1.5 or above in your
> path.
> If you run into any issues with the tool, please let me know.
> Thank you,
> Nicolas
>
> ____________________________________________________
> If the tool does not work, you can revert the long way by doing:
> cd src/
> svn update
> svn merge -c -XXXX .
> (the dot at the end of the previous line is important)
>
> >
>
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