From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Habouzit Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out. Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:39:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20071106193959.GB4382@artemis.corp> References: <1194289301-7800-1-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org> <7vlk9cmiyq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsl3kjdct.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vode8j7o5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8x5bi703.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=SHA1 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Steven Grimm , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 06 20:40:20 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 1IpUHY-0005zm-3l for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:40:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754437AbXKFTkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:40:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754413AbXKFTkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:40:01 -0500 Received: from pan.madism.org ([88.191.52.104]:34949 "EHLO hermes.madism.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754348AbXKFTkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:40:00 -0500 Received: from madism.org (olympe.madism.org [82.243.245.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "artemis.madism.org", Issuer "madism.org" (not verified)) by hermes.madism.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6D326487; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:39:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by madism.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F108F9C4; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:39:59 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Pierre Habouzit , Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , Steven Grimm , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Face: $(^e[V4D-[`f2EmMGz@fgWK!e.B~2g.{08lKPU(nc1J~z\4B>*JEVq:E]7G-\6$Ycr4<;Z!|VY6Grt]+RsS$IMV)f>2)M="tY:ZPcU;&%it2D81X^kNya0=L]"vZmLP+UmKhgq+u*\.dJ8G!N&=EvlD User-Agent: Madmutt/devel (Linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:27:54PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >=20 > > Johannes Schindelin writes: > >=20 > > > Well, I think that _if_ we allow "git revert " to mean "revert = the=20 > > > changes to , relative to the index" (which would be the same as= "git=20 > > > checkout "), then committing that change just does not make sen= se. > > > > > > And it is this behaviour that people are seeking, not "git revert =20 > > > ". > >=20 > > Heh, I found this in the recent log somewhere. > >=20 > > Really, I wonder how difficult git is for people who are not > > brainwashed by cvs/svn, and unfortunately enough, partly by bzr and hg. > > From a user perspective, you might be correct. But then we hav= e to > > add 1000 commands to reflect the English language. > > Not what I want. [06:46] > >=20 > > I am wondering who said it ;-). >=20 > Now, that is not fair, using my own words against me ;-) That's very funny actually :] --=20 =C2=B7O=C2=B7 Pierre Habouzit =C2=B7=C2=B7O madcoder@debia= n.org OOO http://www.madism.org --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHMMMPvGr7W6HudhwRAtCOAJ9Bi3wqk8RPqLXUbp4AW8CUkS2GHwCfep1a IFz24AE3Bdu+oQoV01UgLkc= =rFbV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--