Re: Uninformative comment in files.el

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Could whoever installed the following change:
>
>    2007-12-10  Yoni Rabkin Katzenell  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)
>    * file.el (revert-buffer): Eliminate overlays and the mark.
>
> replace the comment "Reset the mark and remove all overlays" which just
> paraphrases the code, with a comment that actually explains why we
> want/need to do that?
>   

This is not explained in etc/TODO file.

The patch refers to this line in etc/TODO file:

   ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.


Does anyone know why this is necessary?