[PATCHv3] Have git revert documentation reference new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges.

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Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sunday 2008 December 21 15:54:18 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thanks.  I was thinking about doing this instead; how the reference to the
> HOW-TO is done is different, and I am hoping that it would give better
> result for HTML version at least.

Here's a pruned version of my prose, with your link style.  I prefer my prose
because I don't want to use the word "branch", which implies refs having some
important in the later merges, which is not the case from what I understand.

 Documentation/git-revert.txt |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index caa0729..ee9cb82 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ OPTIONS
 	option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
 	the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
 	relative to the specified parent.
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+Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
+brought in by the merge.  As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
+changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the revert commit.
+This may or may not be what you want.
++
+See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
+more details.
 
 --no-edit::
 	With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit
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