notes: fix core.notesRef documentation

[git.git] / Documentation / git-revert.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 271850f51134ee9b991048b5da07775b5dde65fc..caa07298a6b6c0ea2fe2257cb2c62fcae2e62d46 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a
 new commit that records it.  This requires your working tree to be clean (no
 modifications from the HEAD commit).
 
 new commit that records it.  This requires your working tree to be clean (no
 modifications from the HEAD commit).
 

+Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the
+effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one).  If you want to
+throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
+should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option.  If
+you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
+should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the 'git checkout
+<commit> -- <filename>' syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
+both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
+

 OPTIONS
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 <commit>::
 OPTIONS
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@@ -61,7 +70,7 @@ effect to your index in a row.
 
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-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

 
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