Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612141221300.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200612141021.12637.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> > Besides, The fact that revert _adds_ to history is a nice way to
> > document that you reverted that change. And you can even explain in the
> > commit message, why you did it.
> 
> I'm not disputing that the /operation/ is useful, I'm arguing that it is 
> incorrectly named.

Well, people are used to say they've "reverted" a change. Although the command might appear slightly misnamed wrt its operation, it still does what most people are expecting from such a name.

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