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| author | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
| commit | 43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e19a0765b0dd6885fbdf69d3a8d0159a1b42de8 /Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt | |
| parent | 45d74c4b0fe38218b4569a90da7102cf48d616c2 (diff) | |
| parent | c7fd06b6411fb04eb4d9acd7f8822a288a50dc17 (diff) | |
| download | git-43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph
Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt index 6fd711996a..075418eeeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Abstract: Sometimes a branch that was already merged to the mainline after the offending branch is fixed. Message-ID: <7vocz8a6zk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812181949450.14014@localhost.localdomain> +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to revert a faulty merge +============================ Alan <alan@clueserver.org> said: @@ -160,7 +164,7 @@ merged. So it's debugging hell, because now you don't have lots of small changes that you can try to pinpoint which _part_ of it changes. But does it all work? Sure it does. You can revert a merge, and from a -purely technical angle, git did it very naturally and had no real +purely technical angle, Git did it very naturally and had no real troubles. It just considered it a change from "state before merge" to "state after merge", and that was it. Nothing complicated, nothing odd, nothing really dangerous. Git will do it without even thinking about it. |