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
