[PATCH] rollback: clarifies the message about the reverted state (issue 2628)

[Gilles Moris]

On Thursday 10 February 2011 09:13:08 am Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > Previously, when rolling back a transaction, some users could be confused
> > between the level to which the database is rolled back, and the new
> > parents of the working directory.
> >
> >  $ hg rollback
> >  rolling back to revision 4 (undo commit)
> >
> > With this change:
> >  $ hg rollback
> >  rolling back database to tip revision 4 (undo commit)
> >  your working directory is now based on revision 2 and 1
> >
> > So now the user can realize that the database has been rolled back to an
> > older tip, but also that the working directory is not on the tip (here we
> > are rolling back the merge of the heads 2 and 1)
>
> I think it would be interesting to see how we can improve on this
> message, but I don't care much for your current suggestion. I don't
> think we use the word "database" anywhere else for the repo data, and
> the message about the working dir seems to indicate that I now have a
> clean checkout, whereas I actually have the modifications from the
> just-rolled back changeset in it.

May be "store" instead of "database", or just "repository" ?
The working directory might (rolling back commit) or might not (rolling back 
pull, unbundle) be left in a dirty state.

Regards.
Gilles.