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Re: [PATCH 2/3] revert: allow reverting a root commit

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
May 12, 2011, 14:53 UTC
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 13:09, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> Although it is probably an uncommon operation, there is no
> reason to disallow it, as it works just fine. It is the
> reverse of a cherry-pick of a root commit, which is already
> allowed.
>
> We do have to tweak one check on whether we have a merge
> commit, which assumed we had at least one parent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

I've quickly tested this one, too, and it also seems to work nicely. Great stuff!

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Sebastian Schuberth
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Message 7 of 12 in “git cherry-pick --strategy=resolve segfaults if picking a root commit”
  1. Sebastian SchuberthMay 12, 2011
  2. Jeff KingMay 12, 2011
  3. Jeff KingMay 12, 2011
  4. 1/3 cherry-pick: handle root commits with external strategiesJeff King, May 12, 2011
  5. Sebastian SchuberthMay 12, 2011
  6. 2/3 revert: allow reverting a root commitJeff King, May 12, 2011
  7. Sebastian SchuberthMay 12, 2011
  8. 3/3 t3503: test cherry picking and reverting root commitsJeff King, May 12, 2011
  9. Johannes SixtMay 12, 2011
  10. Jeff KingMay 12, 2011
  11. Jeff KingMay 16, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2011

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