From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:33:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214173152.GA6557@joi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081212182827.28408.40963.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 06:28:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> +REVERTING COMMITTED CHANGES
> +---------------------------
> +
> +And sometimes you'll want to revert changes that you've committed, but that are
> +now buried beneath other commits. Short of discarding and reapplying commits,
> +you have to apply a reverse patch:
> +
> + git diff %COMMIT_ID | patch -p1 -R
> +
> +and then commit it. Both the original application and the reversion will be
> +retained by GIT.
"git revert $commit" is a bit shorter.
Marcin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-12 18:28 [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide David Howells
2008-12-12 18:53 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-12 18:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-19 0:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-19 0:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 1:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-24 4:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-19 2:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-19 5:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-12 19:02 ` David Howells
2008-12-12 19:09 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-13 1:12 ` David Howells
2008-12-13 3:34 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-12 19:12 ` David Howells
2008-12-12 19:24 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-12-12 19:40 ` Aidan Van Dyk
2008-12-13 23:05 ` Nick Andrew
2008-12-14 1:45 ` Ping Yin
2008-12-12 19:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-12 19:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-12-13 1:03 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-12-13 1:14 ` David Howells
2008-12-12 20:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-12 21:34 ` Chris Friesen
2008-12-13 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-13 23:12 ` Nick Andrew
2008-12-12 20:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-13 0:30 ` David Howells
2008-12-13 1:04 ` David Howells
2008-12-13 1:16 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-12-19 6:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-12-13 1:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-13 3:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-14 10:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-12-14 17:33 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
2008-12-19 0:47 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-19 9:26 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-12-19 17:08 ` C. Scott Ananian
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