From: Jay Soffian Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:55:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit. Message-ID: <76718490812181955u5f56180en47b3a8268c3538bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200812182129.01021.bss@iguanasuicide.net> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > 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. Put his email in Documentation/howto/undoing-merge-commits.txt and reference that? j.