[darcs-users] How to reset a file to an older state?

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I basically have this transform working--using sed--when I stumbled on
> the following:

If anyone is as confused as I initially was -- I assume this is due to
Patch applying hunks in parallel, while Darcs applies them
sequentially.  Thomas, is that right?

> What about `darcs record --at-{match,patch,tag}=...'?  This would
> internally reset the repository to the specified state and then record
> either the whole repository or only potentially specified files.

No, because then you have two classes of conflicts -- conflicts
between pending and the repo, and conflicts between the new patch and
the repo.  Experience shows that users are usually confused by
conflicts involving pending.

(Pro memoria, ``pending'' is the patch that describes the differences
between pristine and working.  It doesn't actually exist, it's
computed on the fly.)

                                        Juliusz