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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>,
	"Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:00:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqioalfqm7.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpp4u6swo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:23:19 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> I think "restore" also by definition has to go back to _some_
> existing version, not a future yet-to-be-created one, so "restore to
> some previous state" is superfluous;

That's why I found "restore recorded state" not too bad.

> "restore working tree files"

Not a native, but to me "restore file" sounds like "the file is damaged,
it needs to be restored/repaired".

In any case,

  Switch branches or restore working tree files

is an improvement over the existing to me, so my bikeshedding should not
be used to reject this proposal.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-17  7:54 [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17  9:58 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-17 10:54   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 11:47     ` Andres G. Aragoneses
2015-06-17 11:54       ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 11:56         ` Andres G. Aragoneses
2015-06-17 12:17           ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 15:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 16:12               ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 16:19               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 16:43                 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 17:24                   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 17:53                     ` Andres G. Aragoneses
2015-06-17 19:24                       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 19:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 19:29                       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 19:58                         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-18  0:37                           ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-18  1:07                             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-18  7:00                       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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