Re: Backing out changes: the prefered method?

Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:35:51PM -0500, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> > All well and good, but I wanted to bring up something that seems to have been
> > forgotten. How will svn blame deal with reverted code. It would be super
> > nifty there was a way to make it go back to the way it was before, instead of
> > making it appear that you made a change, when really you just put it back to
> > the way someone else made it.
> >
> > I guess it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen that way, but it
> > would definitely be cool.
>
> i don't like that idea... svn blame should still show that 'you' are
> the one who made the change because you are the one who made the
> change, you reverted it and then typed 'svn commit'.

Hey, let's give every line in every file its own ID, and we can track
the history of each! ;-)

I shouldn't laugh. I know there *are* SCM systems out there that
track file "fragments" like that.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:01 2006