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From: Hal Eisen <eisen@dunhackin.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Question about git revert
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:50:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100708015019.GP10042@volcano.builtonlinux.com> (raw)

I did a search of the archives for this mailing list, and couldn't
find anything applicable.

I am having the same problem as Joshua Cheek.  He asked this question
on StackOverflow about a month ago.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2938301/git-remove-specific-commit

There are no merges involved.  I would be perfectly happy having
another commit in my history which documents the reverting of a prior
commit.

The problem seems to stem from git-revert not properly calculating the
"cleanness" of the prior commit, and incorrectly thinking that later
commits depend on the to-be-reverted commit.

I have seen other web sites which suggest using git to manually
generate a diff, and then applying it as a reverse patch, but that
seems like a kludge.

What is the best solution for this use case?

Thanks,
Hal

             reply	other threads:[~2010-07-08  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-08  1:50 Hal Eisen [this message]
2010-07-08  3:05 ` Question about git revert Christian Couder
2010-07-08  4:51 ` Elijah Newren

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