Mercurial > hg
changeset 14545:02cb342950d3
revert: simplify description of effect of -r
| author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
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| date | Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:51:18 -0500 |
| parents | 586f33cc3cb9 |
| children | 99a7cd924636 |
| files | mercurial/commands.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:49:04 2011 -0500 +++ b/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 07 14:51:18 2011 -0500 @@ -4100,12 +4100,8 @@ Using the -r/--rev or -d/--date options, revert the given files or directories to their contents as of a specific revision. This can be helpful to "roll back" some or all of an earlier change. - - Revert modifies the working directory. It does not commit any - changes, or change the parent of the working directory. If you - revert to a revision other than the parent of the working - directory, the reverted files will thus appear modified - afterwards. + Because revert does not change the working directory parents, this + will cause these files to appear modified. If names are given, all files matching the names are reverted. If no arguments are given, no files are reverted.