git-revert with conflicts to behave as git-merge with conflicts

In a busy project, reverting a commit almost always results
in a conflict between one or more files (depending on the
commit being reverted).  It is useful to record this
conflict in the commit-to-be message of the resulting commit
(after the resolve).  The process now becomes:

git-revert <SHA-1>
<git complains and prints failed automatic>
<user manually resolves>
git-update-index <resolved files>
git-commit -s

And the commit message is now a merge of the revert commit
message and the conflict commit message, giving the user a
chance to edit it or add more information:

Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-revert.sh b/git-revert.sh
index 2bf35d116..066e67753 100755
--- a/git-revert.sh
+++ b/git-revert.sh
@@ -141,9 +141,18 @@ git-read-tree -m -u --aggressive $base $head $next &&
 result=$(git-write-tree 2>/dev/null) || {
     echo >&2 "Simple $me fails; trying Automatic $me."
     git-merge-index -o git-merge-one-file -a || {
+	    mv -f .msg "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG"
+	    {
+		echo '
+Conflicts:
+'
+		git ls-files --unmerged |
+		sed -e 's/^[^	]*	/	/' |
+		uniq
+	    } >>"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG"
 	    echo >&2 "Automatic $me failed.  After resolving the conflicts,"
 	    echo >&2 "mark the corrected paths with 'git-update-index <paths>'"
-	    echo >&2 "and commit with 'git commit -F .msg'"
+	    echo >&2 "and commit the result."
 	    case "$me" in
 	    cherry-pick)
 		echo >&2 "You may choose to use the following when making"