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[PATCH] Have manpage reference new documentation on reverting merges.

From
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date
Dec 21, 2008, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID
<200812201832.48992.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
---
An example addition to the manpage for revert that references Nanako
Shiraishi's new documentation.
 Documentation/git-revert.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index caa0729..ea36bdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
 	relative to the specified parent.
 
+	Reverting a merge commit does not completely "undo" the effect of the
+	merge and it may make future merges more difficult.  For more details,
+	please read Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt.
+
 --no-edit::
 	With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit
 	message editor.
-- 
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  1. Have manpage reference new documentation on reverting merges.Boyd Stephen Smith Jr., Dec 21, 2008
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  3. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 21, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2008
  5. [PATCHv2] Have manpage reference new documentation on reverting merges.Boyd Stephen Smith Jr., Dec 21, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2008
  7. [PATCHv3] Have git revert documentation reference new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges.Boyd Stephen Smith Jr., Dec 22, 2008

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