Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > There is still one thing to settle. "revert -m1" could produce > something like this > > This reverts commit <SHA1>, reversing > changes made to <SHA2>. I do not think it is relevant, with or without multiple parents, to even attempt to read this message. The description is not meant to be machine readable/parseable, but is meant to be updated to describe the reason why the reversion was made for human readers. Spending any cycle to attempt interpreting it by machines will give a wrong signal to encourage people not to touch it. Instead we should actively encourage people to take that as the beginning of their description. I even suspect that an update to that message to read something like these "This reverts commit <SHA-1> because FILL IN THE REASONS HERE" "This reverts commit <SHA-1>, reversing changes made to <SHA-1>, because FILL IN THE REASONS HERE" would be a good idea. It of course is orthogonal to the topic of introducing a new footer to record the "what happened" (without the "why") in a machine-readable way.
