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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Subject: Re: revert top most commit
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:15:38 -0400
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On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 21:14 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble using revert. If I attempt to
> 
> $ git revert <sha1id>
> 
> where sha1id is the same as the HEAD commit, I instead get the output of
> what looks like git status.
> 
> Is there anything specific about git revert that prevents it from
> reverting the most recent commit?

Works for me.  What version of git?  Is there a public repo that someone
could test this out on?