Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment

[Eric S. Raymond]

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>