revert --all (again)

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-06-16 21:45, Laurens Holst wrote:
> Op 16-06-11 06:58, Na'Tosha Bard schreef:
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com
>> <mailto:adrian at cadifra.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>      $ hg revert
>>      abort: no files or directories specified
>>      (use --all to revert all files) 
>>
>>
>> Maybe unrelated, but I remember a couple of developers on my team
>> getting hit with revert-when-they-needed-update somehow when we
>> switched to Mercurial.  I *really* think the text here should indicate
>> something more like "use --all to discard changes to all files", etc. 
>> "Discard" is a good word because it makes the ears perk up -- "Discard
>> . . . that means throw away . . . I won't be able to get them back?!".
> 
> I agree "discard changes" is much better than "revert", it is normal
> English instead of something inbetween advanced English and jargon, and
> much more clearly gets the point (and warning) across.

Did you see my patch
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2011-June/032542.html

and did you think about all the cases?

The current revert command is not just for discarding changes. Which is
one of the aspects that makes is so complicated.