Revert updated package to track normal development

[Kevin Squire]

Okay, let's say I find a bug or introduce a feature in my favorite package.  I go ahead and check out a branch, make my changes, push upstream, and lo and behold, it gets accepted.

What's the best way go back to tracking normal development?  Removing and adding the package back seemed like it should work, but just left the package the way it was.  I did end up going into .julia/METADATA.jl, finding the correct sha1 for my version, and checking that out.  Is there a better way?

Kevin

[Stefan Karpinski]

This is a bit of a pain right now. You can do this in the package directory:

git checkout HEAD^0

And then do Pkg.update() and it should resume managing the package. I should create a command that does this for you.

Kevin

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[Kevin Squire]

That's useful (and a command in Pkg would be even more useful).  Thanks, Stefan.

Kevin

[Kevin Squire]

See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1778.

(Special feature: dual recursion!)

[Stefan Karpinski]

Thanks!

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