Comment 1 for bug 45719

Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> bzr update cannot take a revision number so that I can update my working
> tree to a particular revision. It will only update to the latest
> revision. This is useful if you commit something and then want to go
> back to a previous revision (e.g. to check if a bug exists there or
> not). You could do a fresh checkout into a different directory but that
> is not very convenient. bzr should play back the revision history in
> reverse in order to update to a previous revision. This way only
> modified files are touched and things like make will only rebuild the
> modified files.
>
> ** Affects: bzr (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>

You can just use 'bzr revert -r revno' or 'bzr uncommit -r revno' if you
 are going back in history.

John
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