From: Andy Parkins Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:02:42 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Message-ID: <200612142102.45724.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thursday 2006, December 14 17:23, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Well, people are used to say they've "reverted" a change. Although the > command might appear slightly misnamed wrt its operation, it still does > what most people are expecting from such a name. Actually , not only is git-revert misnamed, it doesn't match up with most other SCMs. "svn revert" is git-reset. "bzr revert" is git-reset. "darcs revert" is git-reset. "hg revert" is git-reset. "svk revert" is git-reset. "monotone revert" is git-reset. Most people must surely be expecting it to do what it does in every other SCM; as it doesn't my argument is that we should just drop the name "revert" and call it git-invert instead, which is more accurately named and doesn't conflict with the standard meaning. Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE