From: Miles Bader Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:09:55 GMT Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32541b130906091252i6c96c44buc148bb525d7cde14@mail.gmail.com> Avery Pennarun writes: > This would definitely make it easier to explain things to svn users. > To be honest, I'm not convinced svn's use of the word "revert" is > really right, though. Git's isn't *really* right either, since it > actually makes a new commit, it doesn't remove the old one like it > sounds like it does. I think both definitions are quite reasonable. The sense in which git uses the word -- "make a change reversing an earlier change" -- is actually very common in programming. -Miles -- Would you like fries with that?