Trent W. Buck writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> writes: > > > "rollback" has a precise meaning in database theory. It means to > > undo the last transaction (possibly incomplete) in the history. IMO > > Mercurial uses this correctly, Darcs does not. > > 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. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
