Re: Git hosting

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:08 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:24:56PM +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 16:46 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I will note that a subset of the functionality from git checkout and
> > > > git reset often get confused with git revert.  Another nasty
> > > unneeded
> > > > UI wart (that is surprisingly easy to fix I might add...).
> > 
> > Not sure I follow.  Those commands do very clearly different things:
> > 
> >   git-checkout: Doesn't touch history.  Checks out a branch as your
> > current working branch.
> > 
> >   git-reset: Removes some of the most recent commits in the branch, as
> > if they never happened.  It applies the changes from those commits to
> > your working tree, unless you provide --hard.
> > 
> >   git-revert: Adds a new commit to the branch, undoing an old one, with
> > a comment mentioning that this is reverting that old commit.
> 
> Ah, I meant that last one. SVN just undoes your local changes with
> revert... I'm not sure what the Git equivalent is from reading above
> though.

Don't know either.  I always can do those kind of stuff by simple
"git-diff ... | patch" variations.

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