Q: Ways to explain/teach revert vs. update?

[Ben Finney]

Gordon Tyler <gordon at doxxx.net> writes:

> On 5/20/2011 2:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >> Revert changes files from a working tree (or by default the whole
> >> tree) to be
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You probably meant to say "Revert changes in
> > specified FILES".
> >
>
> Actually, I believe he means "The revert command changes files...."

This kind of grammatical confusion is why I strongly advocate quoting
symbols like ‘revert’ when discussing them in text, since so very many
of them are words which change the meaning of the sentence if unquoted.

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Ben Finney
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