Re: EasyGit Integration

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> writes:
>
>> We talked about this much at GitTogether '08. It's true that for
>> 'reverting' a change in the past, that is the right thing to do. However
>> I don't think there is a first principles case that this is always what
>> people mean by 'revert'....
>
> Sorry; what you think people mean by 'revert' does not matter at this
> point, unless you are building a brand-new system from scratch.

Subversion is by far the most widely used VCS, it's quite likely that
new git users will come from the svn camp (I know I did), and it's
quite likely they will assume 'revert' is doing what svn does. Do you
think that doesn't matter at all?

You might think that 'git revert' is superior to 'svn revert' (and I
happen to agree with that statement), but at least you should take
into consideration the huge amount of users that would find this
behavior strange.

Personally, I would add a note to the 'git revert' documentation to be
extra-clear what 'git revert' is not.

-- 
Felipe Contreras