revert top most commit

From: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2014, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <1409174048.2715.12.camel@jekeller-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hi,

I am having trouble using revert. If I attempt to

$ git revert <sha1id>

where sha1id is the same as the HEAD commit, I instead get the output of what looks like git status.

Is there anything specific about git revert that prevents it from reverting the most recent commit?

Thanks, Jake

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