Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/2] Make the list of common commands more exclusive

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20071112102412.GA24803@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcjr53hp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> > My mental model for git newbies is that they would probably be pulling
> > from upstream repositories (so I was tempted to remove git-init from
> > the common commands list), but they would rarely be cherry-picking or
> > reverting other people's changes.
> 
> I'd agree with that, but reverting and cherry-picking would also
> be done on the commits the user builds on top of other people's
> changes.

On the other hand, cherry-picking and reverting are just the same thing, except one applies a reversed patch. Wouldn't it make sense to merge these two in one command ?

Mike