Is this the expected revert behaviour ?

Zbynek Winkler zwin at users.sourceforge.net
Sat May 6 04:59:56 CDT 2006


Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

>On Fri, May 05, 2006, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>  
>
>>And another thing:
>>
>>By default, "hg revert" reverts the entire working directory if passed
>>no arguments.  You can't lose any work, since it saves .orig files if
>>necessary, but it could be annoying anyway.
>>
>>I think revert should require at least one name to revert.  If you
>>really want to revert the entire working dir, just do something like
>>this:
>>
>>    hg revert $(hg root)
>>
>>instead.  Opinions?
>>    
>>
>
>"hg add" has a similar problem.
>
>Following the principle of least surprise I suggest
>"hg add --all" and "hg revert --all", and
>bare "hg add" and "hg revert" should just print
>a help message.
>  
>
+1

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