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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Revert behavior [Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] yap: Yet Another (Git)
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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:28:34 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:38:13PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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.

This brings up a point I wanted to raise - sometimes when the meanings
across the systems (including Git) are too conflicting, it should be
considered to use a completely different command name whatsoever to
reduce the confusion. This is e.g. the reason Cogito had no "pull"
(but "update") or "checkout" (but "restore" and "switch") commands.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis