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 :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
