Forgive me if this has been posted many times before (I didn't find it
with a quick search). Just bumping this to the list in case others get
stuck using revert.
I was stuck trying to revert to a previous version of a file. Of course,
the fossil revert command is documented:
fossil revert ?-r REVISION? ?FILE ...?
But a newbie like me doesn't exactly know what a "REVISION" is. Sample
from the Fossil GUI (click on a file name to see the revision history,
something similar to the following):
11:16 [78192ab676dd84a7] part of check-in [e9b579c062] Syncing
up minor changes with repo. (user: ezaron branch: trunk) [diff] [annotate]
The REVISION string to use is not the artifact, "78192ab676dd84a7 ... ."
Instead, proper use of the revert command must use the check-in hash,
"e9b579c062 ... ." For example, to revert to an older version of "makefile":
fossil revert -r e9b579c062f8c8a5d33205545ca5d19711162318 makefile
It seems that if you enter an invalid REVISION string, the file will
simply be deleted. Happily, the fossil undo command returns to previous
state.
All the best,
Ed
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