From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:50:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out. Message-ID: <20071105195011.GB8939@artemis.corp> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:28:03PM +0000, Steven Grimm wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >When git-revert has a file argument then redirect the user to what he > >probably meant. > > That's a big improvement. Basically everyone I show git to gets "revert" > wrong at first. > > >+ die("Cannot find commit '%s', did you meant: " > >+ "git checkout HEAD -- '%s'", arg, arg); > > But that suggested command is not going to convince anyone they were > wrong about git being hard to learn. I wonder if instead of saying, "I > know what you meant, but I'm going to make you type a different command," > we should make git revert just do what the user meant. That's an option, but it wouldn't be maint material then :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org