Re: svn commit: r25763 - trunk/subversion/libsvn_client

C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>:
> Actually, I'm concerned about the use of the term rollback to mean "any ol'
> reversal of a changeset". If I'm not mistaken, there are VC system in which
> rollback means something different, namely the pruning of last N changes to
> a line of history. In other words, given a file added in r1, changed in r3,
> r6, and r9, it means nothing to "rollback r6". You can rollback *to* r6 (by
> reversing r9). You can rollback *to* r1 (by reversing r3, r6, and r9). But
> rollbacks don't have gaps in them.
>
> I can't readily point to documentation of other VC systems to back my claim
> (which is based entirely on now-fading memories). Am I the only person who
> thinks of the term "rollback" in this way?

No. New VC mode, following some early VCSes (SCCS, RCS) and some very
recent ones (notably Mercurial), uses "rollback" in exactly that way.

It is *not* a synonym for reversion.

-- 
		Eric S. Raymond
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