On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:36:33PM +0000, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > * Rename builtin-revert.c into builtin-cherry-pick.c
> >
> > * Add option -R/--revert to git-cherry-pick.
> > Document it by taking the current content of git-revert manpage for the
> > option.
> >
> > * get rid of the no_replay initialization, just ignore it when we're in
> > the revert case, it makes really no sense to error out.
> >
> > * put the warning of deprecation in cmd_revert, #if 0-ed out for now.
>
> > +#if 0
> > + warning("git revert is deprecated, please use git cherry-pick --revert/-R instead");
> > +#endif
>
> By the way, Mercurial names this command IIRC 'hg backout'.
>
> But I think that adding '-R' option to git-cherry-pick is a good idea
> even if we don't go deprecating git-revert.
Actually part of the "Git UI sucks at time"-talk by pasy, we somehow
decided that git-revert would probably be deprecated in the future to
avoid the clash between what people coming from other's SCM worlds
expect it to be.
I don't remember what the tentative schedule was, that's why I left the
warning commented out for now.
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·O· Pierre Habouzit
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