Re: EasyGit Integration

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
> We talked about making a 'git revert-file' and 'git revert-commit', with
> 'git revert' printing a message encouraging the user to specify which
> one they wanted (or potentially pointing them to the correct
> incantations of 'git checkout' or 'git cherry-pick').
> 
> I think as long as there is a deprecation cycle, and that users can
> select the old behaviour (either via an alias or a config option), then
> we shouldn't upset many long-time users of revert. Do you agree?

No. I disagree. What the hell is the point in making an _inferior_ name 
for what we already have?

I violently disagree with making git worse just because somebody cannot 
bother to learn it. And it really is about "bother" - it's clearly not 
about anything else.

I also don't see why you'd also then advocate a clearly inferior model 
with two different commands, when you _could_ just do the "commitname" vs 
"pathspec" model. 

		Linus