2009/8/22 Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 20:35 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/8/21 Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>:
>> > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:40 -0700, Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> >> This change was integrated prematurely.  I've rolled it back in the
>> >> jdk7/tl/jdk repository.
>> >
>> > If at all possible, please don't do this. It plays havoc with already
>> > checked out repos and/or automatic clones/backups. You force people to
>> > recreate their local repos if you purge a commit that was already public
>> > like this. Could you use a normal hg backout instead in the future? That
>> > will make sure the integrity of the repo isn't compromised.
>> >
>> It would be much cleaner to just do a commit reversing the patch (mjw,
>> is that what you mean by a backout or something else?)
>
> Yes. "hg backout" creates a reverse changeset that "cancels out" an
> earlier commit (but does so in a way that keeps the integrity of
> repository, plus the whole history). See also: hg backout --help
>
>> I really don't like the idea of sanitising the repos to remove all
>> mistakes and there's also no guarantee everyone will do this and push
>> it in every forest.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Mark
>
>

Ah, so it autocreates what I was talking about.

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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