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Re: reverting initial commit

From
Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 18:36 UTC
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Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> That's not even an revert.  
Right.
> Can't you simply amend it away?
> 
> 	$ git rm not-this-file
>         $ git commit --amend

Right, I've done that. But the fact that un-committing the initial commit was not possible seemed strange to me. At least the error message should be clearer, don't you think?

Thanks. Pascal.

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Message 9 of 10 in “reverting initial commit”
  1. Pascal ObryMar 25, 2009
  2. Jacob HelwigMar 25, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009
  4. Jacob HelwigMar 25, 2009
  5. Giuseppe BilottaMar 25, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierMar 25, 2009
  7. Giuseppe BilottaMar 25, 2009
  8. Eric RaibleMar 25, 2009
  9. Pascal ObryMar 25, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2009

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