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Re: 'svn revert' vs. 'svn resolve'

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-06-09 16:27:11 CEST

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 23:46, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > > I dunno, that seems kind of generic. It seems like "svn undo" suggests
> > > that you could undo lots of things, not just local edits.
> >
> > I was thinking about that, yeah. But I realized that the same sort of
> > objection applies to "revert"... Meaning we didn't get any worse, at
> > any rate.
>
> I don't agree. I think "undo" suggests "undo the last thing I did" and
> "revert" suggests "undo everything I did," which is more consistent with
> getting rid of local edits.

Sorry to join the party so late, but ghudson is echoing my exact
sentiments. -1 on 'svn undo'. 'Revert' very accurately captures the
sense of the operation. It's 'resolve' that I would change.

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