Full files in changesets?

[Aaron Bentley]

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David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:14 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: 
> 
>>>Well, what would be nice is if you had a "bzr resurrect" that would
>>>bring it back with the *same* id.
>>
>>Okay, that's nice too, and should be easy as part of a larger 'undo'
>>command.
> 
> The command to do that should be generic enough to resurrect the file
> from to past revisions.
> 
> "How do I restore a file that I removed by mistake" is moderately
> frequent question. It would make the answer much simpler if the solution
> was the same whether or not a commit occurred since the file was
> deleted.

Yes.  We can just extend the 'revert' command so that you can specify
particular files.  So:

bzr revert # revert all files to last commit
bzr revert -r 50 # revert all files to their state at revision 50
bzr revert -r 50 foo # revert 'foo' to its state at revision 50.

> But such a constraint may not be compatible with a non-surprising "undo"
> command.

What do you think about that solution?

Aaron
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