Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.0-49-gea35

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@@ -327,6 +327,14 @@ git-revert(1) Manual Page
 <div class="para"><p>Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a

 new commit that records it.  This requires your working tree to be clean (no

 modifications from the HEAD commit).</p></div>

+<div class="para"><p>Note: <em>git revert</em> is used to record a new commit to reverse the

+effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one).  If you want to

+throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you

+should see <a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a>, particularly the <em>--hard</em> option.  If

+you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you

+should see <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, specifically the <em>git checkout

+&lt;commit&gt; &#8212; &lt;filename&gt;</em> syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as

+both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>

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@@ -425,7 +433,7 @@ effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2008-07-22 09:19:16 UTC

+Last updated 2008-08-21 00:27:25 UTC

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