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Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:57:18 -0500 |
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Steinar Bang <address@hidden>:
> Yes, as "git reset --hard" is a somewhat dangerous operation to do from
> the command line, it would be nice to be able to do it from a UI that
> feels safe.
>
> But there is one complication that git commits may span more files than
> the one file currently seen by vc-git.el, and if so: what do you do?
Right, this is one of the reasons I described it as tricky and
sharp-edged.
The problem is not specific to Git. It's general to any changeset VCS, where
rollback is necessarily a repository-oriented operation rather than a
file-oriented one.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, (continued)
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Achim Gratz, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Steinar Bang, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/11
- vc-region-authors (or some such), Sebastien Vauban, 2014/12/12
- Re: vc-region-authors (or some such), Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/12
- Re: vc-region-authors (or some such), Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/12
Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/11
Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Sergey Organov, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/12
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/12/12
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/13
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/12/13
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/14