[PATCH] revert: simplify help message, better error message on reverting a merge

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jun 6 16:13:53 CDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 22:52 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> (now I'll shut up on this, since Matt wants to keep that line as it is)

I was -completely- open to changing this line provided the replacement
actually ADDRESSED THE EXPRESSED INTENT. Otherwise, I would not have
spent on the order of two hours corresponding with you on the subject. I
would have just said no.

This is not some mysterious personality quirk of mine, it's how software
engineering is done. We don't drop imperfect bug fixes, we make them
better.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.




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