söndag 21 december 2008 04:11:13 skrev Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > 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. One could consider keeping the contributions from ^1 a special case and not mention the parent, making it look like any revert commit. I guess most merge reverts are like this in practice. -- robin -- 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
