[issue283] Add options to revert to revert only files of a certain status

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Tue Jun 6 13:31:19 CDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:42 +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> > New submission from Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>:
> > 
> > hg revert should take the same flags as hg status:
> >  -m --modified   revert modified files (overwrite local changes)
> >  -a --added      revert added files (don't add on commit)
> >  -r --removed    revert removed files (undelete file)
> 
> It might be too late anyway, but I'd strongly suggest unifying the 
> interface meaning -r stands for revision in all commands (this would affect 
> at least hg status as well).

The logical thing to do would be to uppercase all of the one-character
options to "hg status", then, and use those same names for "hg revert".

So -r becomes -R, and everyone heaves a sigh of relief.

	<b



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