From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:33:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide
Message-ID: <20081214173152.GA6557@joi>
In-Reply-To: <20081212182827.28408.40963.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 06:28:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> +REVERTING COMMITTED CHANGES
> +---------------------------
> +
> +And sometimes you'll want to revert changes that you've committed, but that are
> +now buried beneath other commits.  Short of discarding and reapplying commits,
> +you have to apply a reverse patch:
> +
> +	git diff %COMMIT_ID | patch -p1 -R
> +
> +and then commit it.  Both the original application and the reversion will be
> +retained by GIT.

"git revert $commit" is a bit shorter.

Marcin