On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 05:01:15PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:52:53AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > > > > > On Apr 17, 2020, at 7:46 AM, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > > > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:37:33 +0200 > > > From: Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> > > > Message-ID: <20200417133733.ga5...@antioche.eu.org> > > > > > > | And that would be a problem for me. I regulary update a single file to > > > a > > > | specific revision in a source tree. > > > > > > Me too - I pull the current sh into NetBSD 8 (and I guess 9 now too, > > > though I haven't done that yet) and build it there for some people who > > > like to test and report bugs. > > > > The New Hotness (which isn't particularly new, at this point) is to create > > branches and merge what you want into that branch. > > Yes, but it's much more work than 'cvs up' in a single directory or against > a few files. >
To checkout trunk in just the subdirectory bin/sh you can do: hg revert -r trunk bin/sh for git: git checkout trunk bin/sh Making a commit from this position is a little more awkward. But at least non-CVS repositories make it easier to switch between branches.
