From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:32:17 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <56000DEB.1000306@yandex.ru> <83si67n4ch.fsf@gnu.org> <5600373A.6090206@yandex.ru> <83oagvn1lz.fsf@gnu.org> <56003D57.2080102@yandex.ru> <83lhbzmvhq.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4fzmh97.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442903597 23684 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2015 06:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 06:33:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 08:33:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8V-0004zl-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:33:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8U-0005BG-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:33:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8J-0005B5-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8E-0002SF-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8E-0002SB-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeH8A-0004bC-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:32:46 +0200 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:32:46 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by rainey.bang.priv.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:32:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rainey.bang.priv.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nbNHlKylV204CbjDtXy/2Foqtrc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190227 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" : > In git, "revert" has the wrong semantics; it adds a commit rather than > removing one. This would surely confuse anybody who knows a little > bit about databases. I would have thought that was similar to what a database log contains, and therefore familiar to a database person? Also similar to "event sourcing" (which is the currently hot concept in lock-free storage in microservices, if the JavaZone talks are to be trusted...?).