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bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:28:22 +0300 |
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:25:52 -0300
> Cc: 35290@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Because the section is called "VC Undo", I guess.
>
> OK. But I fail to see a reason why a user, after reading the Undo
> section, would expect that M-x undo acts upon anything that is not
> buffer text. That is what made me think (perhaps wrongly) that the
> sentence is about the old behavior of revert-buffer.
>
> At the least, I think the documentation could be improved. Some of the
> things vc-revert does can be reversed (e.g., bring back the reverted
> changes in the affected buffers) and other changes cannot (or might not,
> I'm not sure of the right wording here). If that is correct, then both the
> current text and my proposed patch fail to make that clear.
OK, I simply removed that sentence from the manual.
Thanks.
bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation, Mauro Aranda, 2019/04/15