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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: ff <ff@member.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to undo a git merge?
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:53:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711185332.GJ10347@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa7d16350807111146m18b0ca9q6902c2167bfd3512@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:46:15PM -0400, ff <ff@member.org> wrote:
> ooops... yes... I'm scared of the reply-all button. :)

Also please don't top-post, thanks. ;-)

> In your example, how and why you can determine that the number 1
> represents the "foo" branch? Would "-m 2" represent the master branch?
> In your example is there any other choice for the "-m" number to use?

If the merge has two parents, then the first one is the actual branch
and the second is the 'other' branch.

So if 'master' is checked out, you did a 'git merge foo', and you want
to do a revert, '1' stands for 'master' and '2' for 'foo'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11 16:16 how to undo a git merge? ff
2008-07-11 16:19 ` Miklos Vajna
     [not found]   ` <fa7d16350807111107o40c5cbb5xc06c3c56b16b7499@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-11 18:14     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-11 18:46       ` ff
2008-07-11 18:53         ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2008-07-11 18:55         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-11 17:13 ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]   ` <fa7d16350807111108y3a8a7c3di19598a56dbbcdc15@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-11 18:36     ` Jakub Narebski

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