Re: [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit.

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2008, 03:29 UTC
Message-ID: <200812182129.01021.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vej04eui5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thursday 2008 December 18 21:03:46 Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 			warning("revert on a merge commit may not do what you "
> > 				"expect.");
>
> [T]he new warning does
> not give you enough clue where to go next, so this warning does not give
> real value.  It is pretty much meaningless noise to users.

At least, it might make someone read the manpage again. Still, I'm unhappy with the message, but I didn't want to be too wordy. A URL or manpage reference would be nice, but I didn't know of a good guide that explained the dangers of reverting a merge commit as well as Linus's emails.

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