From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:09:55 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: revert: allow reverting a root commit
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.5.3~9^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fad2652673247203014e2c57622a5ffe0eb5ad93;p=git.git

revert: allow reverting a root commit

Although it is probably an uncommon operation, there is no
reason to disallow it, as it works just fine. It is the
reverse of a cherry-pick of a root commit, which is already
allowed.

We do have to tweak one check on whether we have a merge
commit, which assumed we had at least one parent.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c
index f697e6695..1f27c6334 100644
--- a/builtin/revert.c
+++ b/builtin/revert.c
@@ -408,8 +408,6 @@ static int do_pick_commit(void)
 	discard_cache();
 
 	if (!commit->parents) {
-		if (action == REVERT)
-			die (_("Cannot revert a root commit"));
 		parent = NULL;
 	}
 	else if (commit->parents->next) {
@@ -467,7 +465,7 @@ static int do_pick_commit(void)
 		strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, "\"\n\nThis reverts commit ");
 		strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
 
-		if (commit->parents->next) {
+		if (commit->parents && commit->parents->next) {
 			strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, ", reversing\nchanges made to ");
 			strbuf_addstr(&msgbuf, sha1_to_hex(parent->object.sha1));
 		}