"git revert" (Re: pci_update_resource() getting called on sparc64)

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> 
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Hm, how do you revert a git patch?
> 
> Something like this?
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	. git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive"
> 	rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify --revs-only "$@") || exit
> 	git-diff-tree -R -p $rev | git-apply --index &&
> 		echo "Revert $rev" | git commit
> 
> Just name it "git-revert-script" and it might do what you want to do.
> 
> It may not have the nicest error messages: if you try to revert a merge
> (which won't have a diff), git-apply will say something like
> 
> 	fatal: No changes
> 
> which isn't exactly being helpful. And the revert message could be made 
> more interesting (like putting the first line of the description of what 
> we reverted into the message instead of just the revision number).
> 
> 		Linus
>