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RE: rapidsvn feedback

From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin_at_dberlin.org>
Date: 2002-07-30 06:03:24 CEST

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Peter Johnson wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Branko ?ibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:51 PM
> > To: Peter Johnson
> > Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: rapidsvn feedback
> >
> > Peter Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >I'd like to see the UI terminology changed.
> > >For example, the following table may be used to translate the
> existing
> > >UI terminology into something more familiar.
> > >
> > >Update -> Get latest
> > >
> >
> > This would be less than true. You can update to something other than
> HEAD.
>
> In that case may be an interface is needed to select the revision or
> branch?
>
> > >Commit -> Check in
> > >Revert -> Check out
> > >
> >
> > Revert does not mean the same as check out. In fact it means something
> > quite different.
>
> Please can you be more specific? I'm still learning Subversion.

Revert means to remove any changes you've added to the working copy.

Checkout means check out from the repository (which, i'm guessing, would
merge if a copy already exists unless you force an overwrite, because this
is what I remember CVS doing. :P)

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