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Re: [Subclipse-users] Re: Revert on a project is too slow

From: Jay Levitt <lists-subclipse_at_shopwatch.org>
Date: 2007-09-18 19:18:55 CEST

On 9/18/2007 1:04 PM, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:23:48 -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
>> On 9/18/07, Zach Bailey <zach.bailey@hannonhill.com> wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to do a little work up front to determine if a
>>> recursive revert were "safe" and automatically choose that option?
>> Would it be possible? Of course. Would that make it safe? Not sure.
>> It depends how smart we are. A related issue is that people wanted
>> us to preserve local history when reverting. If we just switched this to
>> a recursive revert we would lose that.
>>
>> You and I might think this is all fine, but someone down the road is bound
>> to show up on the list angry because they lost work.
>
> What could be more clear in its intention than revert? When I select
> revert on a file, I want that file reverted; when I select it on a
> directory or the entire project, I want to blow it all away - otherwise I
> wouldn't select revert but instead try to backtrack via the local history.

I'm not sure that's what Mark meant. Mark, how does reverting via
Subclipse differ (with respect to the local history) from reverting
recursively at the command line?

Jay

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