Re: rolling back to a previous version

Simon Large wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Rev. Steve Klett wrote:
>>> I have tried reading the help to understand this, but I'm still
>>> confused. Basically, I have a file that I would like to roll back to
>>> a previous revision. I would like to make a specific revision the
>>> "active" revision so that when I do an update on another machine, I
>>> get that version of the file. I have tried "Update item to revision"
>>> and this seemed to work on one machine, but then when I went to
>>> another machine and did a full update on the whole branch, the head
>>> revision of the file in question was retrieved.
>>
>> After "update item to revision", you must of course commit that file
>> again!
>
> What were you saying the other day about "I don't know my own app" ;-)
>
> If you update to an old revision you can't commit until you update to
> HEAD. Use the revision log dialog to revert changes from selected
> revisions.
>
> I am just updating the docs to link to the HowTo section from
> UpdateToRevision.

This time, I *know* my app, but I misunderstood what he wrote. I thought
he used the "revert changes from ...", but it was "update to ...".
Well, I shouldn't be coding, debugging and trying to answer mails at the
same time :)

Stefan

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