On Thu, 1 May 2008 00:35:09 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

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> git-revert _kind of_ makes that possible too, but people still feel too 
> personal about reverts - they take it as intrusion into their subsystem 
> and regard it as an attack against their competence as a maintainer.

I'd question this.  People often seem pretty happy to yank their stuff out
of there - it relieves ongoing embarrassment and it relieves time pressure
- they can have another go and get it right at their leisure.

Of course, reverting is easy.  The hard part is often finding the thing
which needs to be reverted.

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