From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: "git revert" feature suggestion: revert the last commit to a file
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902052145470.7491@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090205202104.GA11267@elte.hu>

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> But it would be so much nicer if i could do the intuitive:
> 
>    git revert kernel/softlockup.c

For some people I know, this would intuitively mean that the uncommitted 
changes in kernel/softlockup.c should be reverted.

So I am not convinced that this is an intuitive syntax at all.

Instead, I think that something like

	git revert :/!file=kernel/softlockup.c

would be possible, as it

- does not overload an already overloaded term, and

- is useful for something else than revert, too.

Ciao,
Dscho