* Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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". > > And it should revert whatever commit is the last/most recent to the > currently used file, i.e., not always revert the same commit. i'm not sure i understand, what do you mean precisely? Ingo -- 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
