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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-10-23 13:33:26 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-10-26 23:28:28 -0700
commit7791ecbc62b792b3eaa6d722b6dadcea4d0f322d (patch)
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parent85b00455057c19a993eeaee2606af550b8d4de10 (diff)
downloadgit-7791ecbc62b792b3eaa6d722b6dadcea4d0f322d.tar.gz
revert/cherry-pick: work on merge commits as well
Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which side of the merge should be considered the mainline (iow, what change to reverse). With this patch, cherry-pick and revert learn -m (--mainline) option that lets you specify the parent number (starting from 1) of the mainline, so that you can: git revert -m 1 $merge to reverse the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative to its first parent, and: git cherry-pick -m 2 $merge to replay the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative to its second parent. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-revert - Revert an existing commit
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] <commit>
+'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] <commit>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ OPTIONS
message prior committing the revert. This is the default if
you run the command from a terminal.
+-m parent-number|--mainline parent-number::
+ Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
+ side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
+ option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
+ the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
+ relative to the specified parent.
+
--no-edit::
With this option, `git-revert` will not start the commit
message editor.