Re: EasyGit Integration

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

I also don't mind per se having the "git checkout" kind of semantics, 
where different kinds of arguments result in different kinds of behavior. 
I'm not convinced it's a wonderful design, but I would not object to

 - old behavior: revert the commit by creating an "anti-commit":

	git revert <cmit-name>

 - new extension: revert the state of the working tree to the HEAD:

	git revert [--] pathspec

which would kind of match the semantics of "git checkout" does.

My personal opinion is this kind of overloading is actually more
confusing than simply adding a new name, such as "git revert-file".
Of course, you can do that already using a git alias....  So IMHO the
best way of handling this issue is to have git tutorials use this as a
teachable moment, so people can create their own git alias for "git
checkout HEAD --".

   	       	      	   	   	   - Ted