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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: bitkeeper gone in 2 weeks - which RCS?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:03:20 -0700
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Paul Larson wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't know if this feature is important to anyone but me, but hg
>>currently doesn't allow you to pull a specific revision, making testing
>>back through versions to find the point where something broke very
>>difficult:
> 
> 
> But can you clone a repository locally and undo the
> changes you don't want ?
> 

This was on xen-devel a while ago. The argument that Matt made was that 
you can never undo things in a distributed system (because someone else 
could've pulled from you before you did undo).

hg co <rev> is not good enough for now?

	-Arun