[Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project

[Miles Bader]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> > It's as if it never happened at all except for the historical note
> > included in the patch logs.
> 
> Thats a misleading analogy.
> 
> 'it's as if it never happened except for the record that it happened'
> !!!

It may sound silly, but it's not.  It's like bookkeeping -- you never
want to delete history, so you can't erase the record that you made a
mistake, but you can correct the mistake, by adding a correction entry.
In that case, the mistaken entry probably doesn't correspond to any
real world event -- it's a mistake -- but there's a record of it.

If you're correcting a mistaken changeset, you want to do the same
thing.  The normal act of replay --reverse is a funnier operation
(even if the implementation is more straightforward).

Hmmm, I wonder what term bookkeepers use for this...

-Miles
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