I personally have in my .gitconfig: [alias] revert-file = checkout HEAD -- I'm not sure revert-file is the best name, but it's what I've used because I've been contaminated by the concept/naming of "p4 revert", which I do use a fair amount to undo local edits for one or more files when I've been forced to use perforce or perforce-like systems. Given that it confuses the concept of how "git revert" works, maybe something like "git unedit <pathspec>" would work better. Given though it's so easy to address this with a single line in a user's .gitconfig, I guess the question is whether it's worthwhile to make a change that would be visible to all users, and perhaps more importantly, all new users to git. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html