So I learned today that --author is not a supported argument to git revert. It took me a long time to realize this, though, because the error I got was very cryptic: fatal: BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk Here's a very simple reproducible case: https://gist.github.com/anlutro/67e0cec1a6a419e6d44131b0bc1deff6 I was recommended to send this report here by #git on irc.freenode.net. Thanks, Andreas -- 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