RE: Re* [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: revert: add discussion

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID: <033a01d9cc7d$2290e600$67b2b200$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1qg9tqhq.fsf@gitster.g>

On Friday, August 11, 2023 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> +
>> +		if (starts_with(msg.subject, "Reapply \"Reapply \""))
>> +			/* fifth time is too many - force reference format*/
>> +			use_reference = 1;
>
>Come to think of it, as the documentation patch in the series cited double

reapply as

>too unwieldy, we probably should stop before producing such commit.  We can
>update "Reapply \"Reapply" above to "Revert \"Reapply" and then "fifth" ->

"fourth".

>The test update below must also be adjusted, if we want to take that route.

May I suggest a potential quick solution. Perhaps we could leave this up to users by putting in an --amend or --reword option to cause a prompt for a comment for the reverted commit instead of trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all solution.