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

[Thomas Schwinge]

[Enqueued in this thread at the request of Juliusz.]


Juliusz writes:

> Searching from the top, `vc-darcs-find-hash' will find the ``created_as''
> change's hash first, and not the one of the latest change.

Hmm, interesting.  Yes, it's indeed a bug -- and it's worked around by
a horrible hack.  See the comment in vc-darcs-diff.

Thanks for the report.

> Fixing this, of course makes the parsing even more ugly.  :-/

Well, I could simply make a first pass to remove the created_as bit.
Or I could go the full way and use the nonvalidating XML parser
included in Emacs.

> I'd definitely like to do that, as I think that darcs's current interface
> w.r.t. being used non-interactively is really suboptimal.  Unfortunately
> my Haskell skills are nonexistent.  :-|

Learning Haskell will make you smarter, taller and more handsome.

                                        Juliusz