From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:26:03 +0000 (-0600) Subject: git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges X-Git-Tag: v1.6.1-rc4~4 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b80b5d67999dfa5bb1e7ad8ff50142bb371b3746;p=git.git git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index caa07298a..5e1175800 100644 --- 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