Re: gnus-sync and the new nnimap

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:22:54 +0200 "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> jao> On Tue, Sep 14 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
>>> The changes for logging and cleanup were OK.
>>> 
>>> git log imap.el tells the revision you want, so then:
>>> 
>>> git diff -r cb950ed8ff3e0f40dac437a51b269166f9ffb60d imap.el
>
> jao> Also, one can use:
>
> jao>   git show cb950ed8ff3e0f40dac437a51b269166f9ffb60d:imap.el
>
> jao> to get the file as it was in the given version.
>
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:50:19 +0200 Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> ŠN> ... and `git revert <commit>' does exactly what you need -- it makes a
> ŠN> new commit undoing changes done by a previous commit.
>
> Yeah, `git show' works great.  I think it's good to check the diff first
> and I usually just make it into a patch since it's in my command history
> :) 
>
> I think `git revert' is not right because we want to note the changes in
> the ChangeLog instead of just undoing them.

Right... but you can still use `git revert -n' to prepare the commit(s) for
you and then perhaps just do `git checkout HEAD -- ChangeLog' to discard
the changes you don't want, edit etc.

Štěpán