On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:02:46PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > 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.
Oh sorry, I read "IMO Mercurial uses this correctly, Darcs does not" backwards -- I thought you were asserting that Darcs' usage of the term was correct. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
