Comment 3 for bug 45719

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 45719] Re: update command cannot take a revision number

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 12:14 +0000, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> That's good to know. However, if I revert to an older revision and then
> use revert -r to a new revision I get conflicts. It doesn't work quite
> how I expected. In svn I can svn update -r and can move my working copy
> between any revisions. It also does not seem very intuitive have the -r
> on revert to me. revert is for reverting your local changes that have
> not been committed. Update seems like the more appropriate command for
> the -r option - and I think it should allow you to move back and forth
> through revision history like svn does.

Agreed. Update and revert are quite different in intent, and update
should have a -r option.

Rob

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