From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:31:57 GMT
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Message-ID: <94a0d4530906101531ja6f1deeob703f546d62e7599@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906092058430.6847@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Linus
Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
>>
>> My personal opinion is this kind of overloading is actually more
>> confusing than simply adding a new name, such as "git revert-file".
>
> I'd agree, except I think it actually worked pretty well in "git
> checkout".
>
> The alternative was to add yet another command for that, or to teach
> people about the internal commands we did have. Adding the capability for
> checkout to check out individual files - in addition to commits and
> branches - I think worked pretty well.

Why? What makes 'git checkout <commit>' and 'git checkout <commit> --
<path>' similar at all? I would expect 'git checkout <commit>' to be
the same as 'git checkout <commit> -- .'

In my mind these are 2 completely different commands.

-- 
Felipe Contreras