363346 - show activity should have an option to migrate or revert a set of changes

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

this feels like bonsai (which is also missing migrate because we never took shaver's work -- sorry :( ), but basically I'd like the ability to select (using checkboxes, or probably ideally some very very magical listbox) a set of actions and either use them to revert changes made to a bug (usually the one i'm looking at - mostly to undo vandalism/midair collision) or to take that change set and apply it to other bug(s).

Comment 1

[Rob Lanphier]

Even a command-line tool (or better, also a command line tool) would be very helpful here.

See this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/56816

A couple quotes from Tim Starling:
"I looked into the possibility of writing an automated
revert tool as a command-line perl script integrated with Bugzilla,
but it looked like it would be fairly complicated:

* The bug history log has an irregular free form text format which is
not designed for automated reversions.

* The update interface (Bugzilla::Bug->set_*()) is not ideal for this
application, it mixes backend access methods such as database field
name maps with business logic such as agreement between product and
component.