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Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:27:14 -0500 |
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:36:29 -0500 "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:
ESR> The VC Git support is now about ten years old. In all that time, the
ESR> fact that Ctrl-x v c is not bound to git reset seems never to have
ESR> been reported as a bug or wishlist item. This suggests to me that
ESR> there is little or no demand for the feature.
Most of us use the command line or Magit. Those work fine.
ESR> Mind not made up yet. But leaning more towards deleting, now. Willing
ESR> to listen to a more spirited defense.
Talk like Yoda, will you.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:42:22 +0100 Steinar Bang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>> I think Git should support it anyway, with rollback to any commit.
>> That's just a "git reset".
SB> "git reset --hard", actually.
While they are both useful, I find `git reset' gentler because it
doesn't lose my changes. It's a soft rollback, perhaps.
SB> But there is one complication that git commits may span more files than
SB> the one file currently seen by vc-git.el, and if so: what do you do?
You tell the user "the rollback will affect more files than you
currently see."
ESR> The problem is not specific to Git. It's general to any changeset VCS,
where
ESR> rollback is necessarily a repository-oriented operation rather than a
ESR> file-oriented one.
Magit and the command line interface do all right.
Ted
Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Steinar Bang, 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eli Zaretskii, 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
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/11
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, John Mastro, 2014/12/12
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Nicolas Richard, 2014/12/12
- Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/12