Re: strict version of version_stamp.pl

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2009-05-08T22:41:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi Alvaro,
>
> On 05/09/2009 12:26 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Perhaps a more difficult problem is that there is no easy way to update
>>> a single file within a git repo. In cvs or svn, if I blow something up
>>> on a particular file and I just want to take a fresh look, I just rm;svn
>>> update.
>> Hmm, you should use "git revert" for that (same with SVN actually).
> Uh. Unfortunately not. git revert is for reverting the effects of an  
> earlier commit, not a working copy difference.

Thanks for the clarification :-)

So how do you revert WC changes?  At least I got the SVN part right --
which is not surprising because that's the one I actually use.  Oh, and
monotone uses 'revert' for the WC meaning too (the other one does not
really make much sense to me, but so does git as a whole)

(You can't be serious that for reverting a WC file to the repository
state you use "git checkout"?)

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