From: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:21:32 GMT
Subject: Re: revert top most commit
Message-ID: <1409257292.25998.4.camel@jekeller-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140828002243.GA20185@google.com>

On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 17:22 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 21:14 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> 
> >>> 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.
> [...]
> > It's actually not my repository, I was helping a co-worker, and thought
> > I'd ask if anyone here knew if it was expected behavior or not.
> 
> More details about the output would help --- otherwise people have to
> guess[*].  I'm guessing your co-worker's working tree is not clean.
> Commiting or stashing their changes first might get things working.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
> 
> [*] Another nice thing about quoting output is that it becomes more
> obvious what about it wasn't helpful, which sometimes leads to patches
> from kind people on the list to fix it.
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I will see if I can get the actual output.

Thanks,
Jake