From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:53:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prepare deprecation of git-revert
Message-ID: <490C4332.9040504@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20081031190157.GG17651@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:36:33AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>> +#if 0
>>> +	warning("git revert is deprecated, please use git cherry-pick --revert/-R instead");
>>> +#endif
>> By the way, Mercurial names this command IIRC 'hg backout'. 
> 
> By the way, BitKeeper names this command "bk undo" (which is another
> reason why I would advocate against "git undo" as a syntatic sugar for
> "git checkout HEAD -- $*") --- not that I think there are too many BK
> refugees that might want to switch to git, but it shows that "undo"
> has its own ambiguities; gk uses "undo" the same way we currently use
> "git revert".
> 
> For people who argue that "git cherry-pick --revert" or "git
> cherry-pick -R" is too long, I'd argue that for most people its not a
> common command, and for those for which it is common, they can always
> make in alias for "git pick".
> 

Probably "git unpick" in that case.

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