From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:23:45 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable)
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:

> > 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.