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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:09:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoy6s07v30.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130906091252i6c96c44buc148bb525d7cde14@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:52:46 -0400")

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> This would definitely make it easier to explain things to svn users.
> To be honest, I'm not convinced svn's use of the word "revert" is
> really right, though.  Git's isn't *really* right either, since it
> actually makes a new commit, it doesn't remove the old one like it
> sounds like it does.

I think both definitions are quite reasonable.

The sense in which git uses the word -- "make a change reversing an
earlier change" -- is actually very common in programming.

-Miles

-- 
Would you like fries with that?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-10  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 18:59 EasyGit Integration Scott Chacon
2009-06-09 19:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-09 19:52 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-09 20:37   ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:42     ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-10 12:13       ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:49     ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10  1:09   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-06-09 20:12 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:40   ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 21:18     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-09 21:48   ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:00 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 12:52   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-09 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-09 22:30   ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10  0:40       ` Mark Lodato
2009-06-10  3:11       ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10  3:32       ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-10  4:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 22:31           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 23:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 23:57               ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-11  0:15                 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-11  0:30                   ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-11  0:42                     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 20:57                       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 21:21                         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 21:48                           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 22:05                             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 22:30                               ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-13  1:24                                 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-11  0:18               ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10  4:20         ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 14:40       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-10  1:25   ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10  1:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10  2:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10  2:52       ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10  6:43         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-10  3:27       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-10 20:47         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10 22:28           ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 16:48       ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-10 22:15       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 22:04 ` Felipe Contreras

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