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Re: master c86e7a29e78: ; Fix documentation of last change
From: |
Sean Whitton |
Subject: |
Re: master c86e7a29e78: ; Fix documentation of last change |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:05:27 +0100 |
Hello,
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 07:18:07PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:48:30 +0100
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu 26 Sep 2024 at 04:46pm +01, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >
> > > I think just "changes" covers both uncommitted and committed changes
> > > well, but we could have "undo uncommitted changes or revert committed
> > > changes" ?
> >
> > Actually, that's no good, because we use "revert" to mean undoing
> > *un*committed changes in VC.
>
> Not only that, please look at the manual node you updated. It uses
> "revert hunk", and that's IMO better than "reverse-apply".
Indeed, given the name of the command, 'revert' is better.
I've installed a change to etc/NEWS that avoids the various problems we've
been discussing.
--
Sean Whitton