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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit.
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:55:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490812181955u5f56180en47b3a8268c3538bb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812182129.01021.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> At least, it might make someone read the manpage again.  Still, I'm unhappy
> with the message, but I didn't want to be too wordy.  A URL or manpage
> reference would be nice, but I didn't know of a good guide that explained the
> dangers of reverting a merge commit as well as Linus's emails.

Put his email in Documentation/howto/undoing-merge-commits.txt and
reference that?

j.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-19  2:39 [PATCH] Make git revert warn the user when reverting a merge commit Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-19  2:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-19  3:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19  3:29     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-19  3:55       ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2008-12-19  5:54         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-19  6:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 18:07       ` Alan
2008-12-19  3:24   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-20  7:08 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-12-20 22:54   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-20 23:31     ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-12-21  2:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21  3:11         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-21 10:09           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-12-21 10:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21 19:59             ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-21 20:23               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21 21:13                 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-21 22:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21 22:38                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21 22:40                     ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-12-21 22:46                       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-21 22:56                         ` Robin Rosenberg

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