Pavel Lyalyakin wrote on Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 21:02:32 +0300: > I assume that if I run `svn revert --changelist foo`, it will revert > all the changes made to items listed in 'foo' changelist without > asking me for paths to the items I want revert. Is this correct that > `svn revert` requires me to provide paths to the items I want to > revert in my working copy? Why?
Historically, 'revert' requires explicit path arguments, and defaults to --depth=empty, in order to minimise the risk of data loss due to reverting more than the user intended. I suspect what you're seeing is simply that when changelists were added, the "Were any positional arguments specified?" check wasn't updated to consider okay the case that a --changelist option was given but positional arguments were not. In short: an oversight bug. (Compare the --targets option, which gets resolved before the "positional arguments?" check.) Apparently, «svn cl --remove --cl x» behaves in the same way. Cheers, Daniel
