BUG simple "revert" fails

BUG simple "revert" fails

[Anthony Booker]

Attached is a tarball with a couple of repositories.  eg-sub is a 
submodule in eg.  In eg there's a commit, 
cd626e6baaa0888c6090e1f040f9f0ba8bfef218, which inappropriately changed 
a file in eg-sub.  It's a newby mistake with git and submodules.

The problem is that the problem can't be reverted.  It fails with 
unknown object It is a submodule.

To reproduce, unpack the tarball, cd to eg and:
git revert cd626e6baaa0888c6090e1f040f9f0ba8bfef218

Thanks for your time.

Re: BUG simple "revert" fails

[Michael J Gruber]

Anthony Booker venit, vidit, dixit 17.08.2008 01:21:
> Attached is a tarball with a couple of repositories.  eg-sub is a 
> submodule in eg.  In eg there's a commit, 
> cd626e6baaa0888c6090e1f040f9f0ba8bfef218, which inappropriately changed 
> a file in eg-sub.  It's a newby mistake with git and submodules.
> 
> The problem is that the problem can't be reverted.  It fails with 
> unknown object It is a submodule.
> 
> To reproduce, unpack the tarball, cd to eg and:
> git revert cd626e6baaa0888c6090e1f040f9f0ba8bfef218
> 
> Thanks for your time.

There's no tarball attached, at least not when reading your post via gmane.

If the repo hasn't been published yet you probably want to rewrite
history rather than introducing a revert commit.

Revering is a bit complicated because the commit to be reverted
contains: subproject commit (unregistering from sub in super) plus add
commit (in super).

Michael