Re: [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit.

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On Saturday 2008 December 20 20:37:16 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > An alternative, would be "removing changes relative to .."
> > (mainline).
>
> But that is exactly what "This reverts commit X" means, isn't it?

When X is a merge commit, the phrase "the reverts commit X" is ambiguous.  Did 
you revert the tree to X^, X^2, or X^8?  I'd be fine with "This reverts 
commit X to X^y", but we definitely need some mention of X^y.
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