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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-23 13:33:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-26 23:28:28 -0700 |
| commit | 7791ecbc62b792b3eaa6d722b6dadcea4d0f322d (patch) | |
| tree | 08ff76b3a227d4bc0395473ad103e82a00355ea3 /Documentation/git-revert.txt | |
| parent | 85b00455057c19a993eeaee2606af550b8d4de10 (diff) | |
| download | git-7791ecbc62b792b3eaa6d722b6dadcea4d0f322d.tar.gz git-7791ecbc62b792b3eaa6d722b6dadcea4d0f322d.tar.xz | |
revert/cherry-pick: work on merge commits as well
Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
side of the merge should be considered the mainline (iow, what
change to reverse).
With this patch, cherry-pick and revert learn -m (--mainline)
option that lets you specify the parent number (starting from 1)
of the mainline, so that you can:
git revert -m 1 $merge
to reverse the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative
to its first parent, and:
git cherry-pick -m 2 $merge
to replay the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative
to its second parent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-revert.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-revert.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 69db49844..3457c4078 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-revert - Revert an existing commit SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] <commit> +'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] <commit> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ OPTIONS message prior committing the revert. This is the default if you run the command from a terminal. +-m parent-number|--mainline parent-number:: + Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which + side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This + option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of + the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change + relative to the specified parent. + --no-edit:: With this option, `git-revert` will not start the commit message editor. |