From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:09:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoy6s07v30.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130906091252i6c96c44buc148bb525d7cde14@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:52:46 -0400")
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> This would definitely make it easier to explain things to svn users.
> To be honest, I'm not convinced svn's use of the word "revert" is
> really right, though. Git's isn't *really* right either, since it
> actually makes a new commit, it doesn't remove the old one like it
> sounds like it does.
I think both definitions are quite reasonable.
The sense in which git uses the word -- "make a change reversing an
earlier change" -- is actually very common in programming.
-Miles
--
Would you like fries with that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 18:59 EasyGit Integration Scott Chacon
2009-06-09 19:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-09 19:52 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-09 20:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:42 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-10 12:13 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:49 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 1:09 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-06-09 20:12 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:40 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 21:18 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-09 21:48 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:00 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 12:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-09 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-09 22:30 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 0:40 ` Mark Lodato
2009-06-10 3:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 3:32 ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-10 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 22:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 23:57 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-11 0:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-11 0:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-11 0:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 20:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 21:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 21:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 22:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 22:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-13 1:24 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-11 0:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 4:20 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 14:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-10 1:25 ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 2:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10 2:52 ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10 6:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-10 3:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-10 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10 22:28 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 16:48 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-10 22:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 22:04 ` Felipe Contreras
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