>From what Matthias just told me, he thought he could revert a file by
deleting it and running 'git pull'; the equivalent works in svn.  It
didn't work, and he ran 'git commit -a' and 'git push' without
checking 'git status' to see what state he was actually
committing/pushing.

Hint, hint, Matthias.  ;p

Carl Eastlund

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious how it actually happened.
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Matthias Felleisen
>> <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> FUZZZ! How do I get list.rkt back? Stupid git, I want svn back.
>>
>> Matthew already fixed it, but... was this really a git problem, or
>> just a "<user> has not learned git thoroughly yet" problem?  Because
>> those were inevitable.  Granted, we're getting a lot more than the cvs
>> -> svn switch, because svn was designed as a drop-in cvs replacement,
>> but git was not designed as a drop-in svn replacement.
>>
>> --Carl
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