Re: EasyGit Integration

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> I'm not convinced it's a wonderful design, but I would not object to
>
>  - old behavior: revert the commit by creating an "anti-commit":
> 	git revert <cmit-name>
>  - new extension: revert the state of the working tree to the HEAD:
> 	git revert [--] pathspec
>
> which would kind of match the semantics of "git checkout" does.

That seems even more confusing, to _both_ svn users and git users...

The similar overloading of "checkout" (to have two completely different
meanings depending on whether a branch or pathname is specified) also
feels very awkward to me.

I sort of assumed that the "checkout -- pathname" form was added as a
sop to cvs/svn users, for which that's a very common idiom...

-Miles

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