Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
> So i have to do something like:
>
> git revert $(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" kernel/softlockup.c)
>
> (tucked away in a tip-revert-file helper script.)
>
> But it would be so much nicer if i could do the intuitive:
>
> git revert kernel/softlockup.c
>
> Or at least, to separate it from revision names cleanly, something like:
>
> git revert -- kernel/softlockup.c
All three shares one issue. Does the syntax offer you a way to give
enough information so that you can confidently say that it will find the
commit that touched the path most recently? How is the "most recently"
defined?
At least you can restate the first one to:
git revert $(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" core/softlockup -- kernel/softlockup.c)
to limit to "the one that touched this file _on this topic_".
> Would something like this be possible in generic Git? It would sure be a
> nice little touch that i would make use of frequently.
>
> Or is it a bad idea perhaps? Or have i, out of sheer ignorance, failed to
> discover some nice little shortcut that can give me all of this already?
The closest I can think of is
git revert ':/the title of the commit'
but it shares the exact same issue of "how would I limit the search space
to make sure it finds the right commit".
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