Mercurial wipes repository history!?

[Sune Foldager]

On 09-04-2010 04:00, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 21:30 +0200, Sune Foldager wrote:
> 
>> On 08-04-2010 17:08, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
>>> "clone" is a transaction.  The fact that a local clone cannot be rolled
>>> back is an error.
>>
>> The reason for that being that local clones just hard-links to the
>> source, so there are no transactions involved. I'd say it's not a bug.
> 
> 
> That requires the user to understand the internals of the tool to
> understand why there is different behavior.  Not a good thing, IMO, but
> your mileage may vary.

Right, but maybe it would also be better if rollback were called
debugrollback.

But then again, the "zomg I just *have* to rollback this repo I just
cloned !!11one!" use-case is probably rare. There is always rm/rd.

/Sune