What Are the 'Numerous Side Effects' in 'Revert timeline changes' #8304
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Can someone explain what is meant by 'numerous side effects' that appears in 'Revert timeline changes'? What are the specific side effects? |
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iModelHub stores the entire timeline of changes to an iModel in the form of changesets. Various applications that edit an iModel maintain a local briefcase, which holds the state of the iModel at a given point in time, along with any local changes made. With this setup, deleting changesets from the iModelHub timeline might impact applications that have pulled those changesets locally, potentially causing the loss of any local in-progress changes. This is because the base changesets on which local changes are made could be removed. |
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This is quite similar to the concept in Git: deleting a commit will affect other developers. |
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iModelHub stores the entire timeline of changes to an iModel in the form of changesets. Various applications that edit an iModel maintain a local briefcase, which holds the state of the iModel at a given point in time, along with any local changes made. With this setup, deleting changesets from the iModelHub timeline might impact applications that have pulled those changesets locally, potentially causing the loss of any local in-progress changes. This is because the base changesets on which local changes are made could be removed.
That is why inversion of the changeset is a safer option when there are changes to be removed. This also ensures the iModel timeline reflects the full history o…