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Re: Proposal: Undo add

From: Peter McNab <mcnab_p_at_melbpc.org.au>
Date: 2007-10-26 04:24:21 CEST

Harun Vos wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>> Using 'Revert' to undo an unintentional add is not intuitive to a lot
>> of people.
> I'll second that; I've had people trying to delete instead of revert
> an add,
> and committing accidentally-added junk files just so that they could
> delete them.
>
> My work is still recovering from years of using VSS though, so there's
> a lot of re-education to do.
>
> Harun Vos
>
Yep, Subversion isn't just a copy of VSS.
I perceive a subtlety is the difference in meaning of undo and revert,
with revert being correct in the context so I think the Subversion folk
got it right.

Peter

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