"Discard" is "Restore"?

[superDuperCyberTechno]

As far as I know, the term "discard" isn't used in Git. Experimenting with Gitu, it seems that the command "Discard" is the same as the newly added "Restore" command (which is shorthand for git checkout -- <file>).

Would that be correct? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to rename "Discard" to "Restore"?

[altsem]

Hi!

It's an abstraction done in Magit. Basically it undo:s things currently selected, and the command that is being run depends on what is selected.

e.g. Discard on a not-checked-in file will do a git clean --force *file*, or discarding a renaming would run git mv --force *new file* *old file*.