Re: [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out.

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On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:28:03PM +0000, Steven Grimm wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >When git-revert has a file argument then redirect the user to what he
> >probably meant.
> 
> That's a big improvement. Basically everyone I show git to gets "revert" 
> wrong at first.
> 
> >+			die("Cannot find commit '%s', did you meant: "
> >+				"git checkout HEAD -- '%s'", arg, arg);
> 
> But that suggested command is not going to convince anyone they were 
> wrong about git being hard to learn. I wonder if instead of saying, "I 
> know what you meant, but I'm going to make you type a different command," 
> we should make git revert just do what the user meant.

  That's an option, but it wouldn't be maint material then :)

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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