From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out. Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:41:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20071105234147.GB12827@inspiron> References: <1194289301-7800-1-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org> <20071105215433.GA12827@inspiron> <85sl3kny8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steven Grimm , Pierre Habouzit , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 06 00:42:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpBa1-00024y-Vd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:42:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754513AbXKEXln (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:41:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754521AbXKEXln (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:41:43 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:17368 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754509AbXKEXlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:41:42 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so1522241nfb for ; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:41:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; bh=cLv3DFYikHBRpQ++RHj4OFxr8R25WG2bPujIgUe9JKo=; b=M8iD9SMo55+6/VzTsKCL/9PHn9vRodzDot7ToykAgN1GM6skPPmg7ecPmIq+5D5luBDJ7emGky1nTydOt2Y/nJ3KqyeOsexF4qOrHI6XQOJbsNtkW9hqBaCyUkIAiHUKf8b1rPg0RH9IEeWf7UvlepnDihW4oVS3jUAkdW/1su0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=PMXpEgjNImvqDPPwC4gSw/bMoGGLcO3fEJYkkCliialukKYpJwAMC7oo9CLharWiEXzgOzFbmryjNr3BLmlUPK2oUtgxXHzkDIpw0q0X7S6VD/RRo6pvXaalsjGdikPiBxtRFk+43JvwNkJ4nTG1rvSk8oWxIhldpgPdpnXx6Nc= Received: by 10.86.1.1 with SMTP id 1mr3838909fga.1194306100761; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from unleashed.kicks-ass.org ( [89.129.132.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i7sm1331946nfh.2007.11.05.15.41.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:41:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by unleashed.kicks-ass.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) alex@flawedcode.org; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:41:50 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: David Kastrup , Steven Grimm , Pierre Habouzit , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85sl3kny8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon 05 Nov 2007, 23:06, David Kastrup wrote: > Alejandro Martinez Ruiz writes: > > On Mon 05 Nov 2007, 11:28, Steven Grimm wrote: > > > >> There is already precedent for that kind of mixed-mode UI: > >> > >> git checkout my-branch > >> vs. > >> git checkout my/source/file.c > > > > This is a different case: you're basically performing the same > > operation, with the second line applying just to a subset of files. > > Huh? The first one moves HEAD. The second one doesn't. That's why I wrote "basically". Anyway, the point is that this doesn't seem to be a valid precedent. - Alex