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Re: User confusion over "Revert"

From: Harwell, Sam <catchall_at_djss.net>
Date: 2006-01-29 20:43:24 CET

Stefan Küng wrote:
> Harwell, Sam wrote:
>
>> Maybe "Permanently Erase Changes in Local Copy"
>
> "Permanently erase" or even "Erase" indicates that something gets
> lost, which is not the case. Even after that operation, you can get
> back to what was before if you want to.
>
>> The others all sounds so... not serious, but revert local changes is as
>> serious as things get.
>>
>> And I still say that the revert window should have NO files selected by
>> default. It's way WAY too easy to accidentally revert everything. Twice
>> now I've opened the revert window, clicked on one or two files I wanted
>> to revert, and hit ok, and bam, everything EXCEPT those got reverted. :(
>> I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up more.
>
> Reverting isn't an operation people use that often (most people don't
> work for nothing, they like to keep the work they've done :) ). That
> said, you can see that with operations you don't do that often, people
> usually don't just click around but think first about what they have
> to do.
> Also, if you just want to revert some files, why don't you select
> those files directly and choose "Revert" instead of all files or the
> parent folder?
>
> Stefan
>
After reverting local changes, how can you undo that action?

When the folder has 300 files and 3 are changed, and you want to revert
2 of them, then it's easier to select the parent folder so the list will
only show the the files that are changed.

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