Re: why does "git revert" commit even if i try to bail with ":q!"?
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Bryan Turner wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:23 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > never noticed this before ... when i do a regular "git commit" and
> > enter my "vi" edit session and change my mind, i can bail with ":q!",
> > regardless of what i've set up as a commit message, and i'll see:
> >
> > Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
> >
> > however, i was just playing with "git revert" and, after i ran:
> >
> > $ git revert <commit SHA>
> >
> > again, simulating that i changed my mind, i just typed ":q!", but
> > the revert went ahead, anyway. i tried again, this time completely
> > deleting all the lines from the commit msg (as the template
> > suggested), but the revert *still* completed after typing ":q!".
> >
> > it was only after deleting all the lines and using ":wq" that the
> > revert was cancelled:
> >
> > Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
> >
> > that seems ... inconsistent. am i misunderstanding something?
> When you use git revert, though, it writes a valid, usable message
> to the file ("Revert <subject>\n\nThis reverts commit <sha>"). When
> you :q!, that's still in the file. Since the file isn't empty, the
> commit moves ahead. again, this is also not true. as i think i mentioned in my earlier
note, if you get dropped into the revert edit session, even if you
delete all the usable commit message lines, if you type ":q!", the
revert commit still succeeds and, in fact, with all of the
revert-supplied usable lines that you just finished removing.
rday
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