git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index caa07298a6b6c0ea2fe2257cb2c62fcae2e62d46..5e1175800a11d9e6a63102063af782757464d72e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ OPTIONS
        option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
        the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
        relative to the specified parent.
++
+Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
+brought in by the merge.  As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
+changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
+reverted merge.  This may or may not be what you want.
++
+See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
+more details.
 
 --no-edit::
        With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit