Re: "git revert" feature suggestion: revert the last commit to a file

> * Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>> 
>> > So i have to do something like:
>> >
>> >    git revert $(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" kernel/softlockup.c)
>> >
>> > (tucked away in a tip-revert-file helper script.)
>> >
>> > But it would be so much nicer if i could do the intuitive:
>> >
>> >    git revert kernel/softlockup.c
>> >
>> > Or at least, to separate it from revision names cleanly, something like:
>> >
>> >    git revert -- kernel/softlockup.c
>> 
>> All three shares one issue.  Does the syntax offer you a way to give
>> enough information so that you can confidently say that it will find the
>> commit that touched the path most recently?  How is the "most recently"
>> defined?
>> 
>> At least you can restate the first one to:
>> 
>>     git revert $(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" core/softlockup -- kernel/softlockup.c)
>> 
>> to limit to "the one that touched this file _on this topic_".
>
> All in the current scope of the integration branch, sure. I.e. the same 
> scope of commits that "git log kernel/softlockup.c" uses.