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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

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