From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: pascal@obry.net
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reverting initial commit
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:40:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbprp30p2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CA799A.6020807@obry.net> (Pascal Obry's message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:36:10 +0100")
Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
> Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>> That's not even an revert.
>
> Right.
>
>> Can't you simply amend it away?
>>
>> $ git rm not-this-file
>> $ git commit --amend
>
> Right, I've done that. But the fact that un-committing the initial
> commit was not possible seemed strange to me. At least the error message
> should be clearer, don't you think?
"You said HEAD^ but there is no such thing? What are you talking about?"
That sounds clear enough to me, but if you have a patch to improve it,
please send it in.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 18:12 reverting initial commit Pascal Obry
2009-03-25 18:20 ` Jacob Helwig
2009-03-25 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-25 18:33 ` Jacob Helwig
2009-03-25 19:45 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-03-25 20:40 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-25 21:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-03-25 21:06 ` Eric Raible
2009-03-25 18:36 ` Pascal Obry
2009-03-25 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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