Keller, Jacob E wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 21:14 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote: >>> I am having trouble using revert. If I attempt to >>> >>> $ git revert <sha1id> >>> >>> where sha1id is the same as the HEAD commit, I instead get the output of >>> what looks like git status. [...] > It's actually not my repository, I was helping a co-worker, and thought > I'd ask if anyone here knew if it was expected behavior or not. More details about the output would help --- otherwise people have to guess[*]. I'm guessing your co-worker's working tree is not clean. Commiting or stashing their changes first might get things working. Hope that helps, Jonathan [*] Another nice thing about quoting output is that it becomes more obvious what about it wasn't helpful, which sometimes leads to patches from kind people on the list to fix it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html