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

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

quoted

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.