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  1. Bug #33973
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Comment 2 for bug 33973

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote : Re: [Bug 33973] bzr lies when reverting and asking for the revno.

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:19:22AM -0000, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33973
>
> Affects: bzr (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> Description:
> sivan@ubuntu:~/my/upb-coroutines-pexpect_with_pre-build_function/utils-and-GUI$ bzr revno
> 184
> sivan@ubuntu:~/my/upb-coroutines-pexpect_with_pre-build_function/utils-and-GUI$ bzr revert -r 173
> sivan@ubuntu:~/my/upb-coroutines-pexpect_with_pre-build_function/utils-and-GUI$ bzr revno
> 184
>
>
> Now, as the revision is really 173 (by checking the source files) bzr reports 183 (the latest).
>
> Rather confusing and makes you think bzr is doing something wrong.

As Robert said on irc, revert only changes the working tree contents.
Showing the revno that is at if it differs from the branch seems to me
like a good improvement.

Wouter van Heyst