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

[Martitza Mendez]

That's a good idea...quoting or italicizing commands to distinct them from
ordinary English.
On May 20, 2011 6:55 PM, "Ben Finney" <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 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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