[PATCH] require full command name for revert

TK Soh teekaysoh at gmail.com
Tue May 9 16:53:53 CDT 2006


On 5/6/06, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:13 -0700, TK Soh wrote:
> > The revert command can create some potentially unpleasent surprises, so
> > it'd help to make sure users know what they are doing.
>
> I don't see much point to this, unless you have some experience of
> people typing "hg rev" and expecting it to abbreviate "hg revelation" or
> "hg revile" or something.

As I said, the intention was to make sure if 'revert' is what we want,
then 'revert' is what we should say. Whether people think 'rev' should
mean 'revision', or whatever, is not what I'd worry about.



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