[darcs-users] Naming consistency between darcs and other DVCSs

Ashley Moran ashley.moran at patchspace.co.uk
Thu Jul 16 12:33:20 UTC 2009


On 16 Jul 2009, at 07:02, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> Erm, in Darcs 2 rollback records a new inverse patch.
>
> Right, and that is incorrect usage (if you want to conform to database
> terminology).  The reason for using "undo" in the phrase above is that
> the transaction may be incomplete, and therefore it's not yet part of
> history so that "delete" doesn't make sense.


How about `darcs reverse`?  Not sure I like it... just a suggestion.

Ashley

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