From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:36:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] revert: rename --reset option to --quit
Message-ID: <7vpqglfc1k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111120094824.GC2278@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> The option to "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" to discard the
> sequencer state introduced by v1.7.8-rc0~141^2~6 (revert: Introduce
> --reset to remove sequencer state, 2011-08-04) has a confusing name.
> Change it now, while we still have the time.
>
> Mechanics:
>
> This commit removes the "git cherry-pick --reset" option.  Hopefully
> nobody was using it.  If somebody was, we can add it back again as a
> synonym.
>
> The new name for "cherry-pick, please get out of my way, since I've
> long forgotten about the sequence of commits I was cherry-picking when
> you wrote that old .git/sequencer directory" is --quit.  

Wouldn't it match other commands better if we called this --abort instead
of --quit?

Other than that I think I agree with the reasoning (and I think I too had
encountered the irritation with the "sequencer state").