From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:40:57 GMT
Subject: Re: reverting initial commit
Message-ID: <7vbprp30p2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49CA799A.6020807@obry.net>

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> 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?

"You said HEAD^ but there is no such thing?  What are you talking about?"

That sounds clear enough to me, but if you have a patch to improve it,
please send it in.