Elijah Newren wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Govind Salinas > <govind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I had some very different ideas along the lines of reducing the number of > > commands (where the commands do something similar just DWIM rather > > than force me to remember or read docs on different commands), making > > commands look similar to commands from other SCMs (revert should do > > what it does for me in all the other SCMs that I have used, which is to > > checkout the HEAD copy into the working directory) > > Your description of revert in various systems isn't quite accurate; it > isn't necessarily HEAD, since most systems (at least bzr and hg) can > also revert files to revisions earlier than HEAD. In fact, questions > of how to do that have come up several times on this list, so you > wouldn't want to exclude that case. Also, the revert behavior of git > (minus perhaps the default auto-commit) comes in pretty handy too > sometimes, and I can't easily find it in other systems (I suspect many > just drop back to diff + patch to handle the case that git provides). [...] By the way, I think the fact that in different SCMs meaning of "$scm revert" and of "$scm reset" differs widely caused Mercurial to adopt "hg backout" for creating a commit which reverts changes (cherry-pick -R), and "hg rollback" to undo last commit. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
