Bug report: `git revert` on empty commit fails silently

From: Alistair Lynn <alistair@othernation.com>
Date: Jun 18, 2015, 15:27 UTC
Message-ID: <A18BC2A3-C9A6-4D03-B929-D821E90B812D@othernation.com>

Hello gitters

Steps to reproduce:

$ git commit --allow-empty -m ‘test’ $ git revert HEAD

The latter fails silently, leaving HEAD pointing at the commit created by the first command.

A subsequent `git commit --allow-empty` has the revert message as the default commit message when starting the editor.

Hope this is the right place for bugs.

Alistair

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