[Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
2009/4/1 Peter Verswyvelen : > Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? I've always found it straightforward. Perhaps you should read the manual http://darcs.net/manual/node8.html#SECTION0089 and try it out for yourself. -- gwern _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Don Stewart
bugfact: > Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? darcs unpull -- Don ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Don Stewart writes: >> Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? > darcs unpull Or just cd to a different directory, and darcs get -t ? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Okay, thanks. So the rumors about this must be incorrect? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ketil Malde wrote: > Don Stewart writes: > > >> Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this > correct? > > > darcs unpull > > Or just cd to a different directory, and darcs get -t ?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Don Stewart
Yes. It would be fairly easy to check this in the docs, too :) bugfact: > Okay, thanks. So the rumors about this must be incorrect? > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ketil Malde wrote: > > Don Stewart writes: > > >> Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Claus Reinke
Perhaps the rumours refer to non-tagged "versions"? In conventional non-distributed version control systems, one might go back to the version on a specific date, while with darcs, that only makes sense wrt a specific repo (I think?). So you can unpull all patches after a date from your local rep

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Oh I checked the docs. But I don't thrust the docs yet, I value the words of the community higher. Since we're using Darcs to guard our hard work, I thought I better double check :-) I'm not really a newbie when it comes to source control actually. I wrote a full blown version control system mysel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-01 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Yes, that might be the rumor indeed, it surely sounds like it :) Darcs is really very different, so it takes a while to get used to it when coming from other systems. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Claus Reinke wrote: > Perhaps the rumours refer to non-tagged "versions"? In conventional > non-d

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
Excerpts from Peter Verswyvelen's message of Wed Apr 01 23:39:15 +0200 2009: [...] > biggest problems I usually see in teams - namely forgetting to add files, > forgetting to check in dependencies and the inability the merge after > renames or moves - Have a look at the --look-for-adds flag that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Ketil Malde
Peter Verswyvelen writes: > Forgetting to add a file can be a nasty one, since if you discover > that too late, the original file at patch time might not exist > anymore (how do you guys solve this? Just plain discipline I > guess?). I've done this once, but with the cabal dependencies, not darc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Nicolas Pouillard writes: > Excerpts from Peter Verswyvelen's message of Wed Apr 01 23:39:15 +0200 2009: > [...] > >> biggest problems I usually see in teams - namely forgetting to add files, >> forgetting to check in dependencies and the inability the merge after >> renames or moves - > > Have a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-04 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Don Stewart wrote: bugfact: Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? darcs unpull Be careful - you cannot revert this! If you want to unpull patches, that were not distributed so far, you should better call 'darcs get' to get a copy

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-05 Thread Eric Kow
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Claus Reinke wrote: > > Perhaps the rumours refer to non-tagged "versions"? In conventional > > non-distributed version control systems, one > > might go back to the version on a specific date, while with > > darcs, that only makes sense wrt a specific repo (I think