On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
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> When git-revert has a file argument then redirect the user to what he
> probably meant.

That's a big improvement. Basically everyone I show git to gets  
"revert" wrong at first.

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> +			die("Cannot find commit '%s', did you meant: "
> +				"git checkout HEAD -- '%s'", arg, arg);

But that suggested command is not going to convince anyone they were  
wrong about git being hard to learn. I wonder if instead of saying, "I  
know what you meant, but I'm going to make you type a different  
command," we should make git revert just do what the user meant.

There is already precedent for that kind of mixed-mode UI:

git checkout my-branch
vs.
git checkout my/source/file.c

-Steve
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