Faheem Mitha wrote:
>On 27 May 2003 14:38:06 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Oh, and please don't reply telling me to "make sure you want to
>>>commit" or some such. There is always the possibility of human error.
>>>
>>>
>>If you accidentally commit a change, why not follow-up by committing a
>>reverse changeset? That's what the book discusses. We do it in this
>>project all the time.
>>
>>
>
>True, this is something that could be done, and is the only option if
>you change your mind after committing the change. However, would it
>not be better to not commit the change if you realise while you are
>writing the log message in the editor (say) that you don't want to
>commit? For one thing, doing as you suggest means you have two times
>the size of the original change taking up space in the respository,
>with a net effect of zero, when it could have been avoided by simply
>not committing in the first place.
>
Yes, and as has been pointed out, you can already do that, simply by
quiting your editor without saving your log message.
-garrett
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