From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:29:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit. 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: > Johannes Schindelin 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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/