On 5/10/17, Ron Aaron <r...@aaron-tech.com> wrote:
> I tried to revert to a good revision 'xxx' using "fossil revert -r xxx"
>
> Despite the help stating "Revert all files if no file name is provided",
> instead fossil told me, "the --revision option does not work for the
> entire tree".
Amid all the confusion, I'm not sure this question was ever answered.
So let me now try...
The "fossil revert" command is intended to undo edits to the local
check-out and restore the content of files back to the last committed
version. For example, you start making some change and decide that
your idea isn't really working out, so you type "fossil revert" to
take you back to a pristine state. Or you do "fossil revert
$filename" to undo all of the local edits for a particular file while
retaining the edits to other files.
The "fossil revert" command only affects the local check-out. It
makes no changes to the repository.
If you want to move your whole check-out to a different baseline,
better to do so using:
fossil revert
fossil update $newbaseline
If you want to change a single file to be the same as it was several
check-ins ago, better to do something like this:
fossil artifact $hash >$filename
In other words, look up the cryptographic hash for the version of the
file you want, then just overwrite the local copy with this historical
copy.
--
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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