Hi, On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My mental model for git newbies is that they would probably be pulling > > > from upstream repositories (so I was tempted to remove git-init from > > > the common commands list), but they would rarely be cherry-picking or > > > reverting other people's changes. > > > > I'd agree with that, but reverting and cherry-picking would also > > be done on the commits the user builds on top of other people's > > changes. > > On the other hand, cherry-picking and reverting are just the same thing, > except one applies a reversed patch. Wouldn't it make sense to merge > these two in one command ? Technically, they are. That's why both of them live in builtin-revert.c. But conceptually, they are not. At least _I_ found it hard at first, to accept that reverting a patch really was a reverse cherry-picking. Ciao, Dscho - 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
